Do complex inventions need less international patent protection?

Jose Fernandez Donoso ()

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 125, issue 2, 278-281

Abstract: I show that very complex inventions stay outside the patent system more often than medium-complexity products. I test this hypothesis using a subset of international patents data. The regressions confirm that patents and technological complexity have an inverted-U shape relation.

Keywords: Patents; Complexity; Intellectual property rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.09.026

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