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Intellectual property rights in a quality-ladder model with persistent leadership
Kiedaisch, Christian - 2012
forward protection reduces the rate of innovation and imposing a nonobviousness requirement reduces R&D spending. It is shown … that full protection against imitation, granted independently of the size of the lead, maximizes the average innovation … rate. -- Intellectual property rights ; persistent leadership ; cumulative innovation ; preemption ; forward protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742608
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Regulating Innovation : Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty
Manne, Geoffrey A.; Wright, Joshua D. - 2013
This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent …, this essay introduces the organizing themes of the volume. Innovation is critical to economic growth. While it is well … understood that legal institutions play an important role in fostering an environment conducive to innovation and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046279
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Compulsory licensing, innovation and welfare : conference paper
Seifert, Jacob - 2013
This paper develops a three-stage model of innovation, fixed-fee licensing and production to evaluate the welfare … effects of compulsory licensing, taking into account both static (information sharing) and dynamic (innovation incentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342239
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Growth and Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property Rights When Consumers Differ in Income
Kiedaisch, Christian - 2017
This paper analyzes how changing the expected length of intellectual property (IP) protection affects economic growth and the welfare of rich and poor consumers. The analysis is based on a product-variety model with non-homothetic preferences and endogenous markups in which, in accordance with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969704
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Cutting too close? : design protection and innovation in fashion goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488919
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Chapter 8. Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, and the World Trade Organization
Saggi, K. - 2016
This chapter surveys the literature on international trade and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the global economy. The discussion is organized around the major questions in the field. How does openness to trade affect national incentives for patent protection? What is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023447
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Intellectual property rights in a quality-ladder model with persistent leadership
Kiedaisch, Christian - 2012
forward protection reduces the rate of innovation and imposing a nonobviousness requirement reduces R&D spending. It is shown … that full protection against imitation, granted independently of the size of the lead, maximizes the average innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316839
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Intellectual Property Rights in a Quality-Ladder Model with Persistent Leadership
Kiedaisch, Christian - 2015
This article analyzes the effects of intellectual property rights in a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth in which incumbent firms preemptively innovate in order to keep their position of leadership. Unlike in models with leapfrogging, granting forward protection, and imposing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013144
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Intellectual Property Rights in a Quality-Ladder Model with Persistent Leadership
Kiedaisch, Christian - 2015
-expiring forward protection reduces the rate of innovation and imposing a non-obviousness requirement reduces R&D spending. It is shown … that full protection against imitation, granted independently of the size of the lead, maximizes the average innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036855
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Intellectual Property Rights in a Quality-Ladder Model with Persistent Leadership
Kiedaisch, Christian - 2012
innovation is carried out by an entrant or an incumbent can increase growth. Moreover, the article studies the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116147