intellectual property

The authors show how the method of selecting the control group may induce spurious evidence of localized spillovers. This paper reassesses a previous studies findings using control patents selected under different criteria. Doing so eliminates evidence of strong intranational localization effects at the state and metropolitan levels, but leaves largely unaffected evidence of international localization effects.

The authors investigate the scientific productivity of Italian academic inventors, namely academic researchers
designated as inventors on patent applications to the European Patent Office, 1978-1999.

A simple intellectual property rights framework is introduced into a dynamic quality ladder model of technological diffusion between innovating firms in one country and imitating firms in another country.

This paper sketches elements of what it intends to be an improved methodology for theoretical and applied economic analysis, and applies these to the area of economics of intellectual property strategy, which may be viewed as a subset of the field of industrial organisation.

Findings of the study confirm that inventors respond to increased likelihood of success at the patent office by filing more applications, and that the surge in patenting in the U.S. in the last two decades appears to be driven to a significant extent by an increase in the underlying invention rate.

The authors argue that a patent system makes collusion among innovators more difficult. They demonstrate that if a patent system reduces spillovers, it renders collusion impossible. Moreover, it is possible to design a patent system that simultaneously increases knowledge spillovers and eliminates collusion.

This paper attempts to systematise the law and economics theory as it relates to intellectual property rights, while at the same time suggesting new perspectives for analysis.

The author states that growing application of science and industry to agriculture makes the sector increasingly globalized, as new technologies and agriculturally based multinational enterprises push to extend markets across borders. This trend
clearly raises some difficult questions for policymakers in Asia and elsewhere.

The paper first reviews how Japan has strengthened the protection of intellectual property rights, focusing on the expansion of the patentable subject matter, the restriction of the possibility of compulsory licensing, stronger deterrence against infringement and the introduction of the doctrine of equivalents.

Many advocates recommend that LDCs should not enforce intellectual property rights.This paper discusses a number of issues in the context of that
debate.