Optimal patent breadth and length with costly imitation

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Patent breadth is characterized by employing the number of possible entrants which enter an industry. It was observed that optimal patent design may be broad and short-lived or narrow and infinitely lived depending on the market structure and the characteristics of the demand function. With costly imitation and endogenous entry, it was found that optimal patent design may be either broad, narrow or of intermediate breadth depending on the characteristics of the aggregate imitation cost function.

Licenses, Patents & Trademarks, Economic aspects, Intellectual property, Monopolies, Patents

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High-tech clusters, technology spillovers, and trade secret laws

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Firms' incentives are analyzed, to cluster in an industrial district to benefit from reciprocal technology spillovers. Trade secret protection based on punitive damages is, except in some extreme cases, beneficial for firms' profits, stimulates, clustering, and is not an impediment to technology spillovers.

Science & research, Evaluation, Influence, Technological innovations, Externalities (Economics), Industrial districts, Intellectual property law

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Patent protection, imitation and the mode of technology transfer

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International technology transfer is examined.

Models, Technology transfer

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