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Exclusive Rights Stimulate Design-Around : How Circumventing Edison’s Lamp Patent Promoted Competition and New Technology Development
Katznelson, Ron D.; Howells, John - 2021
Designing around patents is prevalent but not often appreciated as a means by which patents promote economic … claims. We study the filing rate of incandescent lamp-related patents during 1878-1898 and find that the enforcement of … the lamps described in these lamp patents and compared them to Edison’s claimed invention to create a count of non …
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Technology and intellectual property: A taxonomy of contemporary markets for knowledge and their implications for development
Cimoli, Mario; Primi, Annalisa - 2008
) adjustment processes, thus reassessing the appropriability ad disclosure function of patents. Then, the paper presents a taxonomy … of contemporary markets for knowledge, flagging the existence of what we call derivative markets for knowledge. Patents … financial markets, the value of patents is a function of expectations regarding their uncertain potential future value. The …
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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013
China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …
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Innovation network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its …
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Technology entry in the presence of patent thickets
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian; Graevenitz, Georg von - 2016
We analyze the effect of patent thickets on entry into technology areas by firms in the UK. We present a model that describes incentives to enter technology areas characterized by varying technological opportunity, complexity of technology, and the potential for hold‐up in patent thickets. We...
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Tracking Technology Development Through Patent : The Case of Biotechnology
Jimenez-Hernandez, Claudia Nelcy - 2012
indicators, because patents are an important technological information source, which is relatively up-to-date and available. For … is showed for a specific area. Finally, some considerations about patents as innovation indicator and base of …
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Statistical Patent Analysis Indicators as a Means of Determining Country Technological Specialisation
Khramova, Ekaterina - 2013
Patent data provide a rich set of information which can be used for comparative studies and trend analysis. The paper presents a systematic overview of the most appropriate tools methodologies that are available for determining the technological specialization of countries. Such analysis...
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3D Printing and Patent Law : A Disruptive Technology Disrupting Patent Law?
Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2017
Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central question the present paper aims to address is whether and to what extent the emergence of 3D printing technology indeed urges us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this...
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The Effect of Technological Imitation on Corporate Innovation : Evidence from US Patent Data
Im, Hyun Joong - 2019
Technological imitation may play a crucial role in motivating firms to innovate. However, theoretical predictions and empirical findings on the role of imitation have not yet reached a consensus. One major gap in the previous studies is that the empirical tests are based on samples consisting of...
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