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Property rights for innovation : a structural model of patent screening
Matcham, William; Schankerman, Mark - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014329003
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Trade, innovation and optimal patent protection
Hémous, David; Lepot, Simon; Sampson, Thomas; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422683
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Inventors and Pirates : Creative Activity and Intellectual Property Rights
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2000
This paper analyzes how both the value of ideas created as well as the security of intellectual property rights result from the choices of potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates, and from decisions of people who are engaged in creative activity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470839
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Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools
Schankerman, Mark - 1999
Profit on proprietary research tools is determined partly by the remedies for infringement, such as damages and … affect the incentives to develop research tools. We show that the prevailing legal doctrine of damages under liability rule … damages. This can create insufficient incentives to develop research tools. Incentives can be improved either by a property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471710
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Innovation Fertility and Patent Design
Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - 1999
It may be advantageous to provide a variety of kinds of patent protection to heterogenous innovations. Innovations which benefit society largely through their use as building blocks to future inventions may require a different scope of protection in order to be encouraged. We model the problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471726
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Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights
Shavell, Steven - 1999
This paper compares reward systems to intellectual property rights (patents and copyrights). Under a reward system, innovators are paid for innovations directly by government (possibly on the basis of sales), and innovations pass immediately into the public domain. Thus, reward systems engender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471851
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The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights : A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 1997
This paper examines several recent avenues of empirical research into the enforcement of" intellectual property rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472517
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 1996
This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473066
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Innovation, Imitation, and Intellectual Property Rights
Helpman, Elhanan - 1992
The debate between the North and the South about the enforcement of intellectual property rights in the South is examined within a dynamic general equilibrium framework in which the North innovates new products and the South imitates them. A welfare evaluation of a policy of tighter intellectual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474898
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Intellectual Property Rights, Multinational Firms and Technology Transfers
Biancini, Sara - 2018
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect firms from imitation and are considered crucial to promote innovation and technological diffusion. This paper examines the impact of IPR on import sourcing decisions of multinationals. We consider a framework in which firms offshore production of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929260