Showing 1 - 10 of 262
This paper investigates how the mode of entry into a foreign market can be influenced by the intensity of R&D in an industry and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in a recipient country. It then analyzes the link between the IPR regime and policies that place limits on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136765
, rather than dynamic benefits from greater innovation. I develop a property-rights model of a supply relationship with two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084191
We study how fragmentation of patent rights ('patent thickets') and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the … Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing …. We develop a model of patent litigation which predicts faster settlement agreements when patent rights are fragmented and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656440
are known to all parties. When royalty payments are increasing in one’s patent portfolio, private information about the … simultaneous increase in the cost of padding, that is, a better filtering of patent applications; (iii) upstream firms have more … incentives to pad than vertically-integrated firms which internalize the fact that patent proliferation raises the share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662206
We introduce two simple new variants of the Jackknife Instrumental Variables (JIVE) estimator for overidentified linear models and show that they are superior to the existing JIVE estimator, significantly improving on its small sample bias properties. We also compare our new estimators to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792526
We study the problem of an inventor who brings to the market an innovation that can be legally copied. Imitators may … 'enter' the market by copying the innovation at a cost or by buying from the inventor the knowledge necessary to reproduce … and use the invention. The possibility of contracting affects the need for patent protection. Our results reveal that: (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008477187
Using new data on citations to university patents and scientific publications, and measures of distance based on Google maps, we study how geography affects university knowledge diffusion. We show that knowledge flows from patents are localized in two respects: they decline sharply with distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642874
sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs …-run performance, but also infl ates their acquisition prices, and lowers their acquirers' overall profits. Patent law usefulness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643508
We show that when the researcher’s (observable but not contractible) contribution to innovation is crucial, a covenant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504700
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791837