. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …

intellectual property right design. We derive conclusions in the simplest, one-time innovation, case then investigate how these … optimal procurement of innovation are considered. Finally, we sketch enforcement and competition policy issues. …

patent-regime change on world-fair exhibits per capita, which we use as a proxy for non-patented innovation. We interpret …This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced … adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German …

strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data … strategy reveals there was an almost universal drop in patent social value in the second half of the 1990s, signaling a shift … companies increasing their focus on patent value relative to companies from other industries. On average, aerospace and software …

property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic … creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide patent-like protection or further strengthen existing patent … drug companies: data exclusivity and patent linkage. As noted in earlier chapters (separately posted on SSRN), not all … competition, a thorough understanding of these requirements (as well as how they intersect with patent protection) is important to …

creation of lesser estates or restrictive covenants for real property. In sum, early American courts incorporated into patent … concepts of "assignments" and "licenses." Given widespread confusion today concerning patent conveyance doctrines, this chapter … economic parlance), but patent theorists today can draw at least two important lessons from it. First, it reveals how …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least … partially meant to stimulate patents and "indigenous innovation." However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … innovation …

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 to patent. Furthermore, we derive the optimal scope of the rights …