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Conventional academic, policy, and judicial discussions of patent protection assume that patents solve a classic public goods or market underinvestment problem. This assumption states that, without patents, potential innovators would expect to have no or highly limited means of preventing unauthorized third-party imitation and consequently, would have few incentives to develop innovations. I challenge this assumption both as a positive description of patent practice and as a normative basis for patent policy. As a descriptive matter, I show that a large body of empirical evidence strongly suggests that, with the exception of a few industries, firms often have legal and extra-legal means other than patents by which to appropriate the proceeds of their innovations and that patents tend to be the least effective means of doing so. In particular, firms that establish a dominant market position are generally able to appropriate significant innovation proceeds through various business strategies collectively referred to as the first-mover advantage: superior cost efficiencies, production methods, distribution and marketing networks, and brand image that are difficult for rivals to replicate. This finding has important and surprising normative implications. Whereas the conventional view states that patents cure an underinvestment problem in the market generally, I argue that patents cure an underinvestment problem among entrants (and especially small-firm entrants) in particular. For these firms, the patent system offers significant marginal exclusionary value to the extent that most informal and non-patent means of protecting patentable innovations (in particular, the various elements of the first-mover advantage) are by definition far more accessible to larger, established incumbents than to smaller entrants. Insofar as patents mitigate incumbents' natural appropriability advantage relative to entrants, they counterintuitively weaken rather than strengthen entry barriers and, in doing so, stimulate innovation investment by smaller firms that are often the principal sources of the most fundamental technological advances. This market-entry thesis is reconcilable with extensive patenting by large-firm incumbents insofar as a significant percentage of such large-firm patenting facilitates the incumbent's entry either into other concentrated markets or into knowledge exchanges and other joint ventures with competitors, in each case promoting technological advance and informational dissemination. This thesis also has significant implications for patent policy insofar as it cautions against introducing or expanding patent protection in markets where informal methods of appropriating innovation proceeds are widely available and, in particular, where such informal methods are available to a similar extent to both incumbents and entrants.
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The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents in a knowledge economy are exposing weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, impediments to the dissemination of information through patents, and international inconsistencies. A panel including a mix of legal expertise, economists, technologists, and university and corporate officials recommends significant changes in the way the patent system operates. A Patent System for the 21st Century urges creation of a mechanism for post-grant challenges to newly issued patents, reinvigoration of the non-obviousness standard to quality for a patent, strengthening of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, simplified and less costly litigation, harmonization of the U.S., European, and Japanese examination process, and protection of some research from patent infringement liability.
1 When in the late seventies the Commission started its preparatory work on a plan of action(l) for the creation of a real Community Innovation market, obviously the question came up, how patents or industrial property could specifically help in stimulating technological and industrial innovation and technology transfer in the Community. From an earlier contractor's study(2) about possible items of action in patent law for the improvement of the impact of patents and patenting upon innovation, it was clear that, in principle, there was room for improvement but shortage of information as to how and to what extent efficient improvements should and could be made. 2 In the early 1980s then, the need for clarifying the potential for improve ment in patent law and patent practice became more pressing, so that the Commission convened an informal meeting of experts on 3/4 November 1982 in Luxembourg, in order to discuss the issues relevant to the relation ship between patent protection and innovation and to identify suitable subject matter for action or study. 38 experts from nine Member States, coming from different areas of activity in industrial property or in innova tion attended the meeting, which was chaired by two of them.
As technological developments multiply around the globeâ€"even as the patenting of human genes comes under serious discussionâ€"nations, companies, and researchers find themselves in conflict over intellectual property rights (IPRs). Now, an international group of experts presents the first multidisciplinary look at IPRs in an age of explosive growth in science and technology. This thought-provoking volume offers an update on current international IPR negotiations and includes case studies on software, computer chips, optoelectronics, and biotechnologyâ€"areas characterized by high development cost and easy reproducibility. The volume covers these and other issues: Modern economic theory as a basis for approaching international IPRs. U.S. intellectual property practices versus those in Japan, India, the European Community, and the developing and newly industrializing countries. Trends in science and technology and how they affect IPRs. Pros and cons of a uniform international IPRs regime versus a system reflecting national differences.
Analysis of the power of multinational corporations in moulding international law on intellectual property rights.
Introduction -- Intellectual property rights basics -- Global intellectual property holdings -- Contribution of intellectual property to U.S. economy -- The organized structure of IPR protection -- U.S. trade law -- Issues for Congress.