Research on the Relation of the Inventiveness Standard in the Patent law and R&D Activities
The inventiveness standard in the patent law is termed the ultimate condition for patentability, so the inventiveness standard plays an important significance for R&D activities. A change of the inventiveness standard causes a static effect and a dynamic effect for the profits of firms. The static effect is profits associated with a change of the probability that inventions qualify for patent protection. The dynamic effect is a weighted average of the profits associated with the next patentable discoveries and the economic life of patents. These effects cause the changes of gains of firms, thus affecting their R&D activities. The net effect on the inventiveness standard change depends on the relative strength of the static effect and the dynamic effect. When the two effects are exactly equal, there is a critical inventiveness standard, and R&D activities and the rate of innovation are maximized.
inventiveness standard R&D activity static effect dynamic effect
Yongzhong QIAO
Institute of Intellectual Property Strategy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, wuhan The Institute for China Stability, Southwest University of Political Science and law, Chongqing P.R.China
国际会议
大连
英文
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2008-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）