On the Enablement Function of Patents

Yoon Hwan Hahn, Pyungil Yu and Soo Cheon Kweon
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Yoon Hwan Hahn: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Pyungil Yu: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Soo Cheon Kweon: Electronincs and Telecommunications Research Institute

Korean Economic Review, 1997, vol. 13, issue 2, 145-159

Abstract: Disclosure requirement of patent system enables innovators other than the pat-entee to improve the patented technology. Starting from patentee's efforts to dis-close the minimum amount of information on patented technology to avoid profit erosion from competition with improved products in the product market, we address a novel question of how to induce a patentee to voluntarily disclose the maximum amount of information on his/her invention. Based upon recent litera-ture on patent and related innovation policy under sequential innovation it is ar-gued that with properly adjusted patent scope, competition policy should allow ex post collusive agreements for production joint ventures between sequential innova-tors so as to encourage the voluntary disclosure of information by an early inno-vator to subsequent innovators.

Keywords: Patent; Information Disclosure; Cumulative Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K2 L4 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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