intellectual property

The report offers a simple taxonomy of strategies that firms use to cope with weak property rights. The authors go beyond taxonomy by showing when a particular strategy works.

The report addresses the incentives to disclose information about an innovation that a firm has elected not to patent. By comparing the equilibrium level of disclosure with the level that maximizes total surplus, the author shows that there may be too much or too little disclosure in equilibrium.

The report discusses how the U.S. patent system has undergone a profound shift over the past two decades. The strength of patent protection has been dramatically bolstered and both large and small firms devoting considerably more effort to seeking patent protection and defending their patents in court.

The authors carried out an extensive inquiry to assess the potential impact of Internet file-sharing capabilities on the business models of copyright owners and holders. The report calls upon the players to consider new, productive solutions and business models that support profitable, legal access to intellectual property via digital media.

This paper outlines the utilitarian theory and objectives of the U.S. patent system, how the system has been applied to agricultural biotechnology, the “patent thicket” that has resulted, and the general pro-patent orientation of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

This paper analyzes the effects of different sources of R&D funding and patent office attributes on the patenting process. The empirical estimation is based on four major industries – electronics, chemical and biology, transportation and aeronautics – for the time period 1976-1998.

The European-wide survey delves into the attitudes and approaches major corporations have towards intellecutal property.

The author identifies some of the factors that may influence the level of royalty rate in such a situation of patent negotiations.

The authors study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. They also study international patent agreements by deriving the properties of an efficient global regime of patent protection and asking whether harmonization of patent policies is necessary or sufficient for global efficiency

The guide consists of an overview of the main types of intellectual property currently protected in Russia and remedies available for their infringement.