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Screening for Patent Quality : Examination, Fees, and the Courts.
2016
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Title
Screening for Patent Quality : Examination, Fees, and the Courts.
Item Type
Journal article
Description
57 pages
Summary
We develop an integrated framework to study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening. We focus on four key policy instruments: patent office examination, pre- and post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show that there are important complementarities among these instruments, and identify conditions under which they can be used to achieve either partial or complete screening. We simulate the model to study the welfare effects of different policy reforms. We show that intensifying patent office examination, frontloading patent fees and capping litigation costs all generate welfare gains, while replacing examination with a pure registration system reduces welfare.
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Vol. 2016-036
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https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/screening-for-patent-quality-examination-fees-and-the-courts
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Tilburg : TILEC, 2016.
Language
English
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