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In terms of the number of its patent applications, in 2012 China has emerged as the country with the largest IP office in the world. The performance of the Chinese IP system is thus increasingly in the spotlight. While significant economic studies have been devoted to the rise of domestic...
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Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...
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Two court decisions in the 1990s are widely viewed as having opened the door to a flood of business method and financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615252
piracy there are goods that the South will not produce. Piracy will then lead to a reallocation of innovative activity in … dynamic learning externalities than the other goods, and that their share in consumption is small. Thus, whether or not piracy …) from piracy than the South, because monopoly profits eventually accrue to the North, the South may lose more than the North …
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piracy there are goods that the South will not produce. Piracy will then lead to a reallocation of innovative activity in … dynamic learning externalities than the other goods, and that their share in consumption is small. Thus, whether or not piracy …) from piracy than the South, because monopoly profits eventually accrue to the North, the South may lose more than the North …
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piracy there are goods that the South will not produce. Piracy will then lead to a reallocation of innovative activity in … dynamic learning externalities than the other goods, and that their share in consumption is small. Thus, whether or not piracy …) from piracy than the South, because monopoly profits eventually accrue to the North, the South may lose more than the North …
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piracy there are goods that the South will not produce. Piracy will then lead to a reallocation of innovative activity in … dynamic learning externalities than the other goods, and that their share in consumption is small. Thus, whether or not piracy …) from piracy than the South, because monopoly profits eventually accrue to the North, the South may lose more than the North …
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piracy there are goods that the South will not produce. Piracy will then lead to a reallocation of innovative activity in … dynamic learning externalities than the other goods, and that their share in consumption is small. Thus, whether or not piracy …) from piracy than the South, because monopoly profits eventually accrue to the North, the South may lose more than the North …
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This Paper discusses a number of issues in the context of the debate on intellectual property in less developed countries (LDCs). It starts by discussing the consequences of IP enforcement in LDCs for global innovation and welfare in poorer countries. It then considers the costs and benefits of...
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of firms and markets. We then survey the available literature on patents, trade marks and copyright to assess the value …
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