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 …

At least since Schumpeter published his work 'The Theory of Economic Development' (1912), a wide body of literature has … hypotheses theoretically and to test them empirically. Two data bases are used. First, patent data delivers RINs for all …