dc.contributor.author | PONCE, Carlos J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-02-13T14:04:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-02-13T14:04:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1830-7728 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/8091 | |
dc.description.abstract | It is an important concern that innovators by waiving their patent rights might obstruct
the disclosure of knowledge and therefore retard progress. This paper explores this
concern by using a simple model of two innovators who must decide sequentially
whether to protect an innovation with limited patent rights. Two features are crucial to
the disclosure decision. First: the second inventor may use his valid patent right to
exclude the first inventor from using a secret invention. Second: when waiving her
patent right, the first inventor may disclose her knowledge outside of a patent.
Disclosure informs the Patent Office and courts that related inventions from later
inventors may lack novelty and hence should not be protected by valid patent rights.
This paper shows that when the first inventor chooses not to patent the innovation, the
amount of disclosure is related to the intellectual property choices in a paradoxical way:
the amount of disclosure will be ‘large’ (‘small’) when the second inventor chooses
secrecy (patenting) to protect the innovation too. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | European University Institute | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI MWP | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2008/02 | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
dc.subject | Disclosure | en |
dc.subject | Imitation | en |
dc.subject | Duplication | en |
dc.subject | Exclusion | en |
dc.subject | Sequential Patent Rights | en |
dc.subject | Prior User Rights | en |
dc.title | More Secrecy...More Knowledge Disclosure? On Disclosure Outside of Patents | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.neeo.contributor | PONCE|Carlos J.|aut| | |
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