This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced … adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German … states, Prussia granted patents more restrictively by setting higher novelty requirements. Though, patent fees were much …

most attractive destinations to technology intensive FDI, for instance, pharmaceutical FDI. To explore whether patent … measuring the pharmaceutical patent protection in China (PPP index) to analyze its correlation with inward pharmaceutical FDI … literature - the most sensitive to patent protection, i.e., drugs producing and/or research and development (R&D) FDI. Our …

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 …