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The Decision to Patent

Part of the Contributions to Economics Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2612-8

ISBN: 978-3-7908-2611-1

Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD - Springer Journals

Aug 9, 2010

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Chapter 1Introduction

Zaby, Alexandra

Pages: 1 –35

[Firms do not patent every invention. In many cases they rather rely on trade secrecy or other non-legal means to protect their intellectual property, i.e. the returns on their investments in research and development (R&D). A patent confers to its owner the exclusive rights to prevent third...
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Chapter 2The Decision to Patent with Vertical Product Differentiation

Zaby, Alexandra

Pages: 37 –69

[In this chapter we introduce the patenting decision of a successful inventor into a market with vertically differentiated products1. The analysis of the patenting decision in this setting follows Zaby (2009a).]
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Chapter 3An Empirical Investigation of the Decision to Patent with Vertical Product Differentiation

Zaby, Alexandra

Pages: 71 –86

[The basis for the empirical analysis presented in this chapter is the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) of the year 2005. The MIP is an annual survey which is conducted by the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) Mannheim on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The aim...
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Chapter 4The Decision to Patent with Horizontal Product Differentiation

Zaby, Alexandra

Pages: 87 –122

[In this chapter we introduce the patenting decision into an oligopolistic model of horizontally differentiated products. The analysis presented here in large parts follows Zaby (2009b).We assume that a drastic product innovation is released on a new market where rivals may enter with...
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Chapter 5An Empirical Investigation of the Decision to Patent with Horizontal Product Differentiation

Zaby, Alexandra

Pages: 123 –131

[For our empirical analysis of the case with horizontally differentiated products we use the same data as in the case with vertically differentiated goods. Nevertheless we implement the differing model assumptions by defining the data sample properly. The empirical analysis proceeds as follows:...
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Chapter 6Summary and Discussion

Zaby, Alexandra

Pages: 133 –142

[The main focus of the present book was to investigate the driving forces behind the patenting decision of a successful inventor taking into account the effects of mandatory disclosure. To achieve this the effects of a patent were divided into two parts, a protective and a disclosure effect. By...

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