Similar Search Results

Is Silence Golden? Patents versus Secrecy at the Firm Level

Hussinger, Katrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

In the 1990s, patenting schemes changed in many respects: upcoming new technologies accelerated the shift from price competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the â€˜patent thicketâ€™ arose as a consequence of strategic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835212

Determinants of patent withdrawals: evidence from a sample of Italian applications with the EPO

Sterlacchini, Alessandro; Schettino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

applicants. The procedure for obtaining a granted patent from the EPO is composed of a series of sequential and selective steps … citations added by EPO examiners to the original application. Late withdrawals, instead, are negatively affected by one factor … scope of patent protection. Such a limited explanation suggests that the (unobserved) interventions of EPO examiners are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835593

Optimal Patent Breadth: Quantifying the Effects of Increasing Patent Breadth

Chu, Angus C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In a generalized quality-ladder growth model, this paper firstly derives the optimal patent breadth and the socially optimal profit-sharing arrangement between patentholders. In this general-equilibrium setting, it identifies and derives a dynamic distortion of markup pricing on capital...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836340

Trademark Values in Corporate Restructuring

Torres, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In corporate restructuring under Chapter 11, an asset valuation is a central task for both legal and financial reasons. In the area of intangible assets, however, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) do not reflect internally-generated assets such as brands, trademarks, and other...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836409

Artistic creation and intellectual property

Alcala, Francisco; Gonzalez-Maestre, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

We analyze artistic markets considering three key distinctive features that have been overlooked by the standard analysis on intellectual property. These features are the dynamic link between the current number of young artists and future high-quality artistic creation, Rosen's superstars...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836863

Economic Growth and Patent Policy: Quantifying the Effects of Patent Length on R&D and Consumption

Chu, Angus C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Is the patent length an effective policy instrument in stimulating R&D? This paper develops a generalized variety-expanding growth model and then calibrates the model to the aggregate data of the US economy to analyze the effects of extending the patent length. The numerical exercise suggests...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837166

Identification of University Inventors and University Patenting Patterns at Lund University:Conceptual- Methodological & Empirical Findings

Goktepe, Devrim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

patenting activities in Sweden. The main method of this research is data-matching between the EPO-patents and Lund University …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837335

Effects of Patent Policy on Income and Consumption Inequality in an R&D-Growth Model

Chu, Angus C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

What are the effects of strengthening patent protection on income and consumption inequality? To analyze this question, this paper incorporates heterogeneity in the initial wealth of households into a canonical quality-ladder growth model with endogenous labor supply. In this model, I firstly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837538

An Economic Model of Fair Use

Miceli, Thomas; Adelstein, Richard P. - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005

The doctrine of fair use allows limited copying of creative works based on the rationale that copyright holders would consent to such uses if bargaining were possible. This paper develops a formal model of fair use in an effort to derive the efficient legal standard for applying the doctrine....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839015

Parallel trade and its impact on incentives to invest in product quality

Matteucci, Giorgio; Reverberi, Pierfrancesco - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Automatica e … - 2011

It is widely argued that international arbitrage, or parallel trade (PT), trades off static against dynamic efficiency so that, compared with a national exhaustion regime of intellectual property rights, worldwide consumer surplus rises at the expense of R&D investment. We show that this common...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010597738