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Patents, Secrets, and the First Inventor Defense
Denicolò, Vincenzo; Franzoni, Luigi A. - 2014
We analyze optimal patent design when innovators can rely on secrecy to protect their innovations. Secrecy provides a temporary monopoly, which terminates when the secret leaks out or the innovation is duplicated. We find conditions under which the optimal policy is to induce the first innovator...
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Patent Reality Checks : Eliminating Patents on Fake, Impossible and Other Inoperative Inventions
Contreras, Jorge L. - 2022
The recent assertion of patents originally held by Theranos, the defunct blood analysis company whose founders are under federal indictment for fraud, highlights the existence of patents that might claim non-existent or inoperative inventions. While such patents may ultimately be subject to...
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Defense-Side Patent Litigation Financing : a Practical Solution for Inventors Harmed by the Patent System
Jaccard, Connor - 2021
Small businesses in the United States are a major source of innovation and economic growth and employ more scientists and engineers than either large businesses or universities. In spite of these facts, recent reform in the patent system has had a disproportionately negative impact on small...
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Inventors and Pirates : Creative Activity and Intellectual Property Rights
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021
This paper analyzes how both the value of ideas created as well as the security of intellectual property rights result from the choices of potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates, and from decisions of people who are engaged in creative activity to...
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Product companies must shift patent strategy as inventions go digital
Germeraad, Paul - In: Research-technology management 66 (2023) 2, pp. 28-31
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Do patent pledges accelerate innovation?
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Palangkaraya, Alfons - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 52 (2023) 5, pp. 1-17
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The dark side of signals : patents protecting radical inventions and venture capital investments
Colombo, Massimo G.; Guerini, Massimiliano; Hoisl, Karin; … - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 52 (2023) 5, pp. 1-14
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Patent law and the materiality of inventions in the California oil industry : the story of Halliburton v. Walker, 1935-1946
Díaz, Gerardo Con - In: Enterprise & society : the international journal of … 24 (2023) 1, pp. 174-196
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State-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights Policy
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk - 2016
What form of intellectual property rights (IPR) policy contributes to economic growth? Should technological followers be able to license the products of technological leaders? Should a company with a large technological lead receive the same IPR protection as a company with a more limited lead?...
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After the Gold Rush : Patent Law and Biological Inventions
Rimmer, Matthew - 2016
to discover and invent myself, and now I wish to protect my invention from unauthorized exploitation, genetic or … otherwise. I am new: I have led a private existence and I have not made the invention of myself public. I am not obvious (2000 … Biological Resources: The Market Failure for Biodiversity Conservation Charles Lawson …
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