This paper provides a theoretical analysis of product and process patent regimes in the context of North-South trade. For some parametric configurations, we show that Northern government would favor the product patent regime in the South, although the Northern firm would prefer the process...

In the literature of patent licensing, most of the studies are done where new technology is transferred from a cost-efficient firm (patentee) to a less efficient firm (licensee). However, R&D intensive firms are usually based in high wage countries whereas the cost-efficient firms are based in...

In the context of international technology transfer from the developed North to the developing South, this paper analyses the impact of the Southern patent protection on the innovation rate in the North and the welfare effect in the South. In a two-period model, we show how the different modes...