, consumers and the agrichemical industry depending on the patent status of the technology adopted or discarded due to the … research. The size and allocation of the benefits from “public” R&D affecting on-patent and off-patent herbicide use is … analysed using economic surplus techniques. The results indicate that herbicide patent status does not have important …

To protect intellectual property (IP), organizations use different kinds of mechanisms such as patent, secret or trade … secret (Hannah, 2005; 2007). Patent grants to the holder a temporary monopoly position including the right to sue for … in the industry and that the firm makes an effort to protect” (Fosfuri and Rønde, 2004: 46). Unlike patent relies on …

. Indicators refer to the information about Chinese patent applications at EPO in the period 1996–2010 (OECD REGPAT and Citations … databases, January 2014). In order to fit the research questions, patent data have been restricted, re-organized and originally …

Patent infringement awards are commonly thought to be unpredictable, which raises concerns that patents can lead to … unjust enrichment and impede the progress of innovation. We investigate the unpredictability of patent damages by conducting … relationships with accepted indicators of patent value. Our findings demonstrate that infringement awards are not systematically …

work by incorporating the phases required to bring the project from patent approval to market. We also incorporate a …

This paper investigates whether patent subsidy programs aimed at promoting regional innovations have aroused a large … number of low-quality applications in China and created biased patent statistics as an indicator for innovations. We found … that patent filing fee subsidies encouraged filing of low-quality patent, resulting in a decreased grant rate. Though …

optimal search. In conventional models of patent design, only one brand - the brand with the highest quality - is available on …