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Optimal Global Patent Design

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  • Donald J. Wright

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The optimal patent breadth and length is derived for an innovating and a noninnovating country in the presence of imitation. It is found that the innovating country chooses longer or broader patent protection than the noninnovating country depending on the concavity or convexity of demand. These patents are compared to the optimal global patents designs and are found to be too weak from a global perspective. Finally, it is shown that where the optimal global patent design involves identical patents in each country that the innovating country is unambiguously better off, while the noninnovating country may be worse off with the optimal global patent design.

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  • Donald J. Wright, 2005. "Optimal Global Patent Design," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 161(1), pages 18-37, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:jinste:urn:sici:0932-4569(200503)161:1_18:ogpd_2.0.tx_2-u
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    1. Abhra Roy & Aniruddha Bagchi, 2011. "Optimal patent policy with endogenous cross-border acquisitions," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(3), pages 259-282.
    2. Bagchi, Aniruddha & Roy, Abhra, 2011. "Endogenous R&D and Intellectual Property Laws in Developed and Emerging Economies," MPRA Paper 31822, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Appio, Francesco Paolo & Baglieri, Daniela & Cesaroni, Fabrizio & Spicuzza, Lucia & Donato, Alessia, 2022. "Patent design strategies: Empirical evidence from European patents," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 181(C).
    4. Aniruddha Bagchi & Abhra Roy, 2012. "Endogenous Research and Development and Intellectual Property Laws in Developed and Emerging Economies," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 78(3), pages 895-930, January.

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    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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