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dc.contributor.author | Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-08-12T07:19:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-08-12T07:19:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27580 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The traditional argument that shorter product cycles favor trade secret over patenting is reviewed. A game theoretic model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file more patent applications. The firms may be trapped in a prisoners' dilemma where all firms would jointly prefer to patent less and to not have a patent thicket. If firms start applying for patents on technologies which are not yet mature in order to cover ideas that may eventually turn successful, this may create a patent thicket. The transition into a situation where firms start patenting many ideas instead of single mature technologies is initiated and accelerated when network effects are present or patents exhibit a blocking property. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aZentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) |cMannheim | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aZEW Discussion Papers |x08-098 | en |
dc.subject.jel | L1 | en |
dc.subject.jel | L2 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O31 | en |
dc.subject.jel | K2 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | patent thicket | en |
dc.subject.keyword | product cycles | en |
dc.subject.keyword | licensing | en |
dc.subject.keyword | network effects | en |
dc.subject.stw | Patent | en |
dc.subject.stw | Innovationswettbewerb | en |
dc.subject.stw | Gefangenendilemma | en |
dc.subject.stw | Network Externalities | en |
dc.subject.stw | Lizenzvergabe | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.title | Do Shorter Product Cycles Induce Patent Thickets? | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 588030155 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:zbw:zewdip:7472 | en |
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