the licensing contracts on social welfare and optimal patent protection …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

the negative disclosure effect may overcompensate the positive protective effect of a patent.In this case the inventor … prefers secrecy. Welfare considerations show that a patent may be socially desirable even though it delays the first adoption … of a new technology. -- patenting decision ; Secrecy ; disclosure requirement ; technology adoption ; patent height …

Research and Development theory and policy. It covers patent policy, the effects of market structure and the internal … -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- References -- Chapter 2. Innovation, Duplication, and the Contract Theory of Patents -- Abstract -- 1 …. Beyond polar cases -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. On Patent Licensing -- Abstract …