Patent renewal fees and self-funding patent offices

Topics in Theoretical Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-119

  Gans, Joshua S ^a   King, Stephen P ^b   Lampe, Ryan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Innovation incentives; Patents; Renewal fees; Self funding

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244310796     PISSN: 1534598X     EISSN: 1534598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-598X.1147     Document Type: Article

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