Discrimination against Foreigners: The Wuerttemberg Patent Law in Administrative Practice

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: University Hohenheim; University of Mannheim
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050720000479
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 1071-1100
• 关键词: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; Knowledge spillover; Germany; RIGHTS; INNOVATION; GROWTH; MARKET; TRADE

摘要

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the patent office of the German state Wuerttemberg strategically discriminated against foreign inventors by charging comparatively high patent fees. We show that this administrative practice was driven by fiscal and protectionist motives.