have a significant impact on the decision to settle in civil law litigation. We find that case-specific factors, procedural …

technologies and skill distributions. We construct a link between our contest model and expected utility theory and exploit this … link to revisit important comparative statics results of contest theory and show how these can be overturned. Finally, we …

The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of patent rights and utility model on both economic growth and … development. While patent protection positively effect on economic growth for developed countries, utility model protection … show that patent protection and utility model do not contribute to firm performance in Turkey. …

From the viewpoint of an innovator a patent is a tradeoff between the right to exclude others from using the patented … matter versus the requirement to disclose it. Given the sequential nature of many innovations, patent induced technology … original patent. Incomplete patent protection reduces the risk of such infringement: either a narrow 'leading breadth' of the …