Patents
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84542-481-7 (ISBN)
Patents summarizes four decades of pioneering research by F.M. Scherer on the economics of patent protection. This book is distinguished by concern for the role of patents in a global context and by thorough investigation into the utility of patent counts as instruments for measuring the magnitude and consequences of technological invention. The book also includes a detailed new introduction by F.M. Scherer.The seminal essays contained within the book are organized around three principal foci: how to identify and shape policies yielding optimal patent protection in domestic and international markets; using patent data to reveal important features of the economy; and interpreting the economic significance of patents as measures of innovation. Explored under the second focus are the relationships of patenting to firm size, market structure, demand, and how inventions flow through the economy to yield productivity gains. The third focus illuminates implications of the highly skewed distribution of individual patent values.
Scholars working on innovation and science, technological change, and law and economics will find this an invaluable and interesting book. It will also appeal to practitioners involved in patent and antitrust matters.
F.M. Scherer, Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management in the Aetna Chair, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, US
Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Economic Analysis and Policy
1. The Economics of the Patent System
2. Nordhaus’ Theory of Optimal Patent Life: A Geometric Interpretation
3. Comment on Edmund Kitch
4. The Economics of Human Gene Patents
5. The Pharmaceutical Industry and World Intellectual Property Standards
6. Economic Effects of Strengthening Pharmaceutical Patent Protection in Italy
7. Post-TRIPS Options for Access to Patented Medicines in Developing Nations
8. A Note on Global Welfare in Pharmaceutical Patenting
Part II: Using Patent Data to Measure Technological Innovation
9. Firm Size, Market Structure, Opportunity, and the Output of Patented Interventions
10. Corporate Inventive Output, Profits, and Growth
11. Inter-Industry Technology Flows in the United States
12. Demand-Pull and Technological Invention: Schmookler Revisited
13. The Propensity to Patent
14. Technology Flows Matrix Estimation Revisited
Part III: What Do the Measures Measure?
15. The Office of Technology Assessment and Forecast Industry Concordance as a Means of Identifying Industry Technology Origins
16. Exploring the Tail of Patent Invention Value Distributions
17. Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Inventions
Part IV: The Road Ahead
18. The Innovation Lottery
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.9.2005 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84542-481-6 / 1845424816 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84542-481-7 / 9781845424817 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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