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Patent Regimes, Firms and the Commodification of Knowledge

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  • Olivier Weinstein

    (CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord - UP13 - Université Paris 13 - USPC - Université Sorbonne Paris Cité - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Benjamin Coriat

    (CEPN - Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord - UP13 - Université Paris 13 - USPC - Université Sorbonne Paris Cité - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

This paper analyses the evolution of the intellectual property regime (IPR), and more precisely the patent regime, in the USA since the nineteenth century. To do so, we consider intellectual property laws within the context of wider changes in capitalism, focusing on two main historical phases: first, the period covering the formation and development of ‘corporate capitalism' dominated by large corporations and then the new phase, which opened up in the 1980s, marked by the rise to power of finance. From a perspective of institutional complementarities, we seek to show how the characteristics and implications of patent regimes can only be understood in relation to changes in the main institutional forms of capitalism: forms of the firm, the status of labour (the ‘wage-labour nexus') and market forms.

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  • Olivier Weinstein & Benjamin Coriat, 2012. "Patent Regimes, Firms and the Commodification of Knowledge," Post-Print hal-01361224, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01361224
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    Cited by:

    1. Dosi, Giovanni & Marengo, Luigi & Staccioli, Jacopo & Virgillito, Maria Enrica, 2023. "Big Pharma and monopoly capitalism: A long-term view," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 15-35.
    2. Christian Bessy, 2019. "The transformations of conventions for patent use and the role of legal intermediaries," Working Papers halshs-01872163, HAL.
    3. Massimo Florio, 2022. "To what extent patents for Covid-19 mRNA vaccines are based on public research and taxpayers’ funding? A case study on the privatization of knowledge [For Billion-Dollar COVID Vaccines, Basic Gover," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 31(5), pages 1137-1151.
    4. Fabiano, Gianluca & Marcellusi, Andrea & Favato, Giampiero, 2021. "R versus D, from knowledge creation to value appropriation: Ownership of patents filed by European biotechnology founders," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).

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