Patent-Induced Theory Sample Clauses

Patent-Induced Theory. The “monopoly-profit-incentive” thesis supposes that inventions will not be sufficiently commercialised if inventors or /and investors only can expect the profits of a competitive market. Profit expectations are increased through the possibility of monopoly pricing. Patent grants are therefore the 86 Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx; Theories of Intellectual Property, in New essays in the legal and political theory of property (Xxxxxx, S., ed.), Cambridge, 2001. 87 See Machlup, pp. 20-25, Xxxxxxx, pp. 19-42 and Oddi, pp 273-284.‌ 88 The Reward Theory can be distinguished into two separate theories, the Reward for Services Rendered Theory and the Reward by Monopoly Theory, xx Xxxx, X. Xxxxxx; Un- unified economic theories of patents, the not quite holy grail, 00 Xxxxx Xxxx X. Xxx.000. 89 Machlup, p. 21. most efficient way to stimulate the industrial exploitation of technical knowledge, all for the benefit of economic progress.90 It has been argued, as a consequence, that only those inventions induced by the patent system ought to deserve its protection. If the invention was not directly motivated by a future granting of a patent, a patent should not be rewarded with such. This line of argument, also called “the Patent-Induced Theory”, would prohibit patent protection for inventions which sees the light of day due to for instance market demand, scientific curiosity or by chance. Two authors of the Patent induced theory are Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx00 and Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx00.
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