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Conflict resolution, public goods and patent thickets
Harhoff, Dietmar; von Graevenitz, Georg; Wagner, Stefan - 2013
Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352087
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Controversy over the economic justifications for patent protection
Karbowski, Adam; Prokop, Jacek - 2013
The objective of this paper is to show the necessity of reviving the debate on the economic justifications for patent protection. On the one hand, we see the need for the assessment of the overall welfare consequences of the existing systems of patent protection, and on the other hand, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428158
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Knowledge creates markets: The influence of entrepreneurial support and patent rights on academic entrepreneurship
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2016
We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460750
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The application of competition policy vis-à-vis intellectual property rights: The evolution of thought underlying policy change
Anderson, Robert D.; Kovacic, William E. - 2017
This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis … policy changes. Part 2 of the paper outlines the breakthroughs in understanding that have underpinned the evolution of … be well understood or applied in an optimal fashion in the absence of the other. Secondly, the thought evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731711
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Knowledge creates markets : the influence of entrepreneurial support and patent rights on academic entrepreneurship
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2016 - This version: April 2016
We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456680
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International protection of intellectual property
Grossman, Gene M.; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2002
We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539076
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Conflict resolution, public goods and patent thickets
Harhoff, Dietmar; Graevenitz, Georg von; Wagner, Stefan - 2013
Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742118
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The application of competition policy vis-à-vis intellectual property rights : the evolution of thought underlying policy change
Anderson, Robert D.; Kovacic, William E. - 2017 - Manuscript date: 6 September 2017
This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis … policy changes. Part 2 of the paper outlines the breakthroughs in understanding that have underpinned the evolution of … be well understood or applied in an optimal fashion in the absence of the other. Secondly, the thought evolution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723874
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International Patenting Strategies of Chinese Residents: an analysis of foreign-oriented patent families
Kashcheeva, Mila; Wunsch-Vincent, Sacha; Zhou, Hao - Economics and Statistics Division, Word Intellectual … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939253
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Scarcity of Ideas and Options to Invest in R&D
Erkal, Nisvan; Scotchmer, Suzanne - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2007
We consider a model of the innovative environment where there is a distinction between ideas for R&D investments and the investments themselves. We investigate the optimal reward policy and how it depends on whether ideas are scarce or obvious. By foregoing investment in a current idea, society...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538426