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Subsidies or Tax Breaks Versus Intellectual Property Rights : Dual Markets

Skliaustyte, Egle; Weber, Matthias - 2021

Intellectual property rights are monopoly rights, which have undesirable welfare properties. Therefore, several studies suggest to use rewards as incentives for innovation instead. However, these studies have thus far had little effect on actual policy, possibly because such rewards may be...

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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

This paper surveys the major changes in patent policy and practice that have occurred in the last two decades in the U … effects of changes in patent policy. Despite the significance of the policy changes and the wide availability of detailed data … patent policy are few. Possible reasons for these limited results are discussed, and possible avenues for future research are …

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Pricing, Patent Loss and the Market for Pharmaceuticals

Frank, Richard G.; Salkever, David S. - 2021

Empirical studies suggest that entry of generic competitors results in minimal decreases or even increases in brand-name drug prices as well as sharp declines in brand-name advertising. This paper examines circumstances under which this empirical pattern could be observed. The analysis focuses...

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End-product- vs Component-level Licensing of Standard Essential Patents in the Internet of Things Context

Geradin, Damien; Katsifis, Dimitrios - 2021

The appropriate level of licensing Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) in the case of a multi-tiered supply chain is among the most hotly debated issues in the SEP community and at the crux of an ongoing dispute between Nokia and Daimler. The debate centres on whether the SEP holder is (or should...

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Licensing Measurement - Technical Briefs

Fiene, Richard - 2021

This series of technical research briefs provide a licensing measurement paradigm shift in how regulatory compliance and performance assessment are viewed in a more continuous fashion. The initial brief deals with moving from nominal to ordinal measurement scaling to various regulatory models to...

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Patent-Rich Firms and Corporate Restructuring : Patent Signalling, Valuation, and Governance

Denoncourt, Janice - 2021

During insolvency events, intangibles and intellectual property (IP) rights (such as patents, trademarks, copyright (software), websites and domain names, confidential information and knowhow) is a wide-ranging asset class requiring specialist expertise. It is often thought that an insolvency...

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Capturing Technological Opportunity Via Japan'S Star Scientists : Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R. - 2021

Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm's biotech patents by 34 percent development by 27 percent,...

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Motivating Inventors : Non-competes, Innovation Value and Efficiency

He, Zhaozhao - 2021

Non-compete agreements help protect business investments by restricting worker mobility, thereby increasing firm incentives to invest. Yet, they could damage the efficacy of innovation investments that crucially rest on employee incentives. Exploiting staggered reforms of state non-compete...

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Intermediate Input Imports and Innovations : Evidence from Chinese Firms’ Patent Filings

Liu, Qing; Qiu, Larry D. - 2021

Innovation plays a key role in economic growth. In this paper, we investigate the effects of intermediate input tariff reduction on the innovation activities of domestic firms. Input tariff reduction has two opposite effects on the innovation decision of a firm: it may promote innovation because...

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Global Engagement and the Innovation Activities of Firms

Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew J. - 2021

Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than their purely domestic counterparts. To better understand this correlation, we incorporate the perspective of industrial organization that one of the main drivers of differences in...

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