Reaping what you sow: an empirical analysis of international patent harmonization

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: McCalman, P
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(01)00091-5
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 161-186
• 关键词: Intellectual property rights; International agreements; patents

摘要

This paper extends analysis of the GATT Uruguay Round by quantifying the impact of international patent harmonization as implied by the TRIPs agreement. Patent harmonization has the capacity to generate large transfers of income between countries, the US being the major beneficiary. Developing countries are major contributors to these transfers, but Canada, the UK, and Japan also make sizable contributions. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science BY All rights reserved.