's accession to the World Trade Organization) (WTO) in 2001. We also show that there is a positive upstream spillover effect of FDI …

Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political …

The literature on patent buyouts has focused on single-economy settings, where buyouts are welfare improving relative … world with two heterogeneous countries featuring different sizes and innovation capacities. Moving to an international … system of global patent protection paired with domestic price subsidies, and only intersovereign transfers can achieve a …

principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic creativity (focusing on patent and … problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and copyright law and direct consumer protection statutes and …

establishment of the World Trade Organization(WTO) in 1995. Although the TRIPS Agreement covers several areas of IPRs, Patents …

discusses how patent-like rights (such as "data exclusivity") prevent lower-cost generic medicines from entering into the …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also … exist with the patent-granting process, they do not rise to the level of justifying a ban on software patents. Instead …

This paper examines the role of patent policy in the open economy. It begins by considering how the presence of patents … affects trade in patentable products. A brief review of the general argument for patent protection is followed by … consideration of the elements that comprise a patent system, and which determine "patent strength". Attention is then given to how …