of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …

.S. "exhausts" all rights of the patentee to that item under the Patent Act. This decision goes against the Government's position … that a foreign sale authorized by the U.S. patentee should exhaust U.S. patent rights by default unless the patentee … subjects the firms that source in the South and sell in the North to the risk of a patent infringement lawsuit but allows the …

Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political …

The literature on patent buyouts has focused on single-economy settings, where buyouts are welfare improving relative … world with two heterogeneous countries featuring different sizes and innovation capacities. Moving to an international … system of global patent protection paired with domestic price subsidies, and only intersovereign transfers can achieve a …

/export policies, food safety regulations, and agricultural practices around the world. Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture … the controversies: governments, environmental agencies, consumers, industrial agencies and the developing world. … -- Chapter 5. Simulation of World Market Effects: The 2010 World Market With and Without Bt Corn and GR Soybeans -- Chapter 6 …