2007
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grm037
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“…4 We find similar results in biotechnology and more traditional segments of the drug and chemical industries. This does not support the presumption that U.S. patent quality declined most sharply in new technology fields (Hall, 2007;Merrill et al, 2004). Finally, EPO patents appear to have become more important over time, relative to USPTO patents, when acquiring and target firms belong to different industries or operate in different countries.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 83%
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“…4 We find similar results in biotechnology and more traditional segments of the drug and chemical industries. This does not support the presumption that U.S. patent quality declined most sharply in new technology fields (Hall, 2007;Merrill et al, 2004). Finally, EPO patents appear to have become more important over time, relative to USPTO patents, when acquiring and target firms belong to different industries or operate in different countries.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 83%
“…The explosion of patent activity in new technology areas has been viewed with particular concern by critics of the USPTO. Examination standards appear to have been too low in these fields (at least initially), due to inexperience on the part of examiners, lack of adequate written prior art documents, and court decisions (Merrill et al, 2004;Hall, 2007).…”
Section: The Changing Institutional Environmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…There is a vast literature examining the costs and benefits of IPRs protection and their effects on innovation and growth (see Hall (2007) for a survey on patent effectiveness in encouraging innovation and current controversies in patent policy). In endogenous growth models (Romer, 1990;Aghion and Howitt, 1992) the protection of IPRs is essential in order to protect the rents of innovators against imitation, therefore to guarantee the return to innovation.…”
Section: Legal System and Intellectual Property Protectionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…chips away from these rents and may actually deter the appeal of investments and trade activities with these partners. Furthermore, strengthening existing IPR regimes may actually reduce domestic productivity by promoting an "intellectual monopoly" that is detrimental for innovation in less developed countries (Boldrin and Levine, 2008), and biased towards high-tech industries (i.e., pharmaceutical, biotechnology, electronics) that are not representative for the industrial mix of these countries (Hall, 2007). As a result, institutional quality may have antagonistic effects on the relationship between technological spillovers and domestic productivity.…”
Section: Hypothesesmentioning
confidence: 99%