a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for … innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the duration of a country's patents that are applied with national …

support the major arguments for and against the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS …)? Finally, can the structure of TRIPS—both in terms of the core obligations it imposes on the WTO members and the flexibilities …

applied in the Napster, Aimster, and Grokster decisions, among others, significantly chill technological innovation. This … copyright liability and technological innovation and some suggestive empirical results. The conceptual analysis demonstrates … that the question of whether indirect copyright liability chills technological innovation inherently requires consideration …

Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may …

Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political … setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing governments rely on taxes to …

world with two heterogeneous countries featuring different sizes and innovation capacities. Moving to an international …

results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms … framework. -- filing fees ; imitation ; innovation ; probabilistic patent rights ; R&D ; simultaneous innovation ; trade secrets …