Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may … be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … more innovative mechanism is quantity based regulation through the establishment of a system of Tradable Patent Rights. The …

The core insight of this Article is that patent rights are not static and fixed, as they are commonly portrayed, but … malleable. Commentators typically treat patent rights as if they are unchanging, frozen forever at the moment the patent issues …. But patent law isn’t so limited. Patent rights are surprisingly malleable: The scope and strength of the right can be …

,the US provides robust patent protection across the whole range of information patents, while Europe has expressly declined …

This paper investigates the effect of different patent regimes on R&D investment and social welfare in a duopoly market … with uncertain R&D process. We find that strong patent protection increases R&D investment of at least one firm but whether … both firms' R&D investment will be more under strong patent protection is ambiguous. While ex-ante welfare is more likely …

discussed in identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each theory. This article suggests that there is not one all …- encompassing theory of justification for the protection of copyright and patents. It establishes that these theories are neatly … intertwined in substance. Notwithstanding varying rationales behind every theory, the importance of intellectual property …

Scholars who point to political influences and the regulatory function of patent courts in the U.S. have long … patent and which attracted criticism for a wealth of different reasons, are fine case studies of the current debate over the … innovation. In doing so, these decisions essentially endorse practices of personal information processing which constitute a new …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …