In this paper, we offer a novel explanation to the surge in patenting bserved during the last years. With low … patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively …

affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … German firms from manufacturing and services sectors I show that the perceived effectiveness of patent protection positively …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …

higher levels of innovation and lower levels of secrecy. An increase in the size of the market, a reduction in the cost of …

higher levels of innovation and lower levels of secrecy. An increase in the size of the market, a reduction in the cost of … produits est associé avec davantage d'innovation et moins de protection. Une augmentation dans la taille du marché, une …

substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …

own innovation. The analysis predicts that the willingness to enforce IPR is U-shaped in a country GDP: small … enforcement of IPR yields a higher level of innovation and global welfare only if the developing country does not innovate. A …

: We analyse the consequences of the increasing complexity of R&D on within- and between-patent competition in the … pharmaceutical industry. The intensity of competition is measured by jointly considering the timing from market launch to patent … expiry, the strength of between-patent competition as well as competition introduced by generic producers. A simple model is …

clauses would reduce such excessive, signaling-driven investment and patenting intensity. … sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs …' high value to acquirers prior to exiting. This increases the VC-backed companies' patenting intensity and long …

This paper offers a theoretical treatment of information disclosure through patenting. We consider a signaling model in … subsidizing the costs of patent applications has no impact on the outcome. …