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Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Subject "intrinsic motivation"
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Title:Inventors and Impostors: An Economic Analysis of Patent Examination
Author(s):SCHUETT, FlorianDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications - those satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and nonobviousness - should be accepted, while bad applications ...