The Economics of the European Patent System: IP Policy for Innovation and Competition

Why does society allow, or even encourage, private appropriation of inventions? When do patents encourage competition, when do they hamper it? How should society design the compromise between the interest of the inventor and the interest of the users of patented inventions? How should the patent sys...

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Main Authors Guellec, Dominique, van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford University Press 2007
SeriesOUP Catalogue
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ISBN9780199216987
0199216983
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199216987.001.0001

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