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prizes is flawed. I show how prices in the market for inventions provide state-contingent signals that guide invention …, commercialization, innovation, financing, and complementary inventions. I examine how prices in the market for inventions provide … indicators of technological change. I conclude that replacing market prices with government prizes would harm invention …
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There has been much debate about the economic harms caused by patent infringement lawsuits filed by patent holders who … do not make or sell products covered by their own patents — entities pejoratively referred to as “patent trolls.” This …, the patent assertion entities (PAEs) that represent them, and the stories behind their patents. The research for this …
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, following individuals and firms for 20 years (1987-2006). We find that inventors' wages steadily increase before patent … applications are submitted to the European Patent Office, reach a peak around the time of submission and then decrease again. We … also find that the applications that will eventually lead to a granted patent receive a greater wage increase than those …
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China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity … by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than … patent holders. Furthermore, the paper examines what drives patenting activity. Higher R&D spending by the firm and higher …
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'invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal for use the RWP basis on my circa 25 years … 'Patentable Invention as the Legal Object in the Light of Systems Thinking Big (whole) Picture in Patent Laws' I have presented in …The present article is in principle the continuation of my one 'Legal Definition of the Term 'Invention' as the Primary …
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Standard innovation theory assumes that intellectual property protection is a prerequisite to the development of … innovation for the benefit of society. While not directly challenging this traditionally held belief, the authors used empirical … with greater innovation. The results of this empirical study were mixed. The authors’ analysis identified a statistically …
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economic areas: USA, Japan and Europe. In each economic area, we exploit information from two international patent offices data …, the United States Patent and Trademarks Office data and the European Patent Office data. In this way, we can investigate … the existing literature is that we introduce a patent inventors approach to measure the proximity between the firms …
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applicability of an innovation is further affects the relation. To address these issues we build a novel dataset matching patent …-in-difference approach on an original dataset of patent-paper-pairs we are able to estimate the causal effect of the granting of a patent on … citing agent belongs to a public institution. In addition, the the more invention is applied, the weaker is the negative …
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This paper studies the intellectual property protection in a global setting where the protection is based on the patentability requirement. When two countries with similar research efficiencies open trade with each other, the world patentability requirement will rise above the autarky levels of...
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Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops … crop-specific technology development, I find that the introduction of patent rights increased the development of novel … accompanied by positive spillover effects on innovation in certain non-biological agricultural technologies, and led to an …
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