The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: A Survey of the Empirical Literature / Jean O. Lanjouw, Josh Lerner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lanjouw, Jean O.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Lerner, Josh.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6296.

NBER working paper series no. w6296

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1997.

Summary:

This paper examines several recent avenues of empirical research into the enforcement of" intellectual property rights. To frame these issues, we start with a stylized model of the patent" litigation process. The bulk of the paper is devoted to linking the empirical literature on patent" litigation to the parameters of the model. The four major areas we consider are (i) how the" propensity to litigate patents varies with the expected benefits of litigation the cost of litigation affects the willingness to enforce patents, (iii) how the cost of enforcing" patents changes the private value of patent rights, and (iv) the impact of intellectual property" litigation on the innovation process itself.

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Print version record

December 1997.