ESTIMATING THE GAINS FROM TRADE IN THE MARKET FOR PATENT RIGHTS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Serrano, Carlos J.
• 署名单位: Pompeu Fabra University; Barcelona School of Economics
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12338
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 1877-1904
• 关键词: technology; PROTECTION; FIRMS; integration; INVESTMENT; INNOVATION; simulation; adoption; industry; renewal

摘要

The market for patents-the sale of patents-is an often discussed source of incentives to invest in R&D. This article presents and estimates a model of the transfer and renewal of patents that, under some assumptions, allows me to quantify the gains resulting from the transfer of patents. The gains from trade measure the private benefits of reallocating the ownership of a patent from the original patentee to a new owner for whom the patent has a higher value. In addition, I study the effect that lowering transaction costs has on the proportion of patents traded and the gains from trade.