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Author-Name: Huang, Can
Author-Email: huang@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT/MGSoG
Author-Name: Jacob, Jojo
Author-Email: jacob@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT/MGSoG
Title: Determinants of quadic patenting:  Market access, imitative threat, competition
 	and strength of intellectual property rights
Abstract: This paper analyses firms' decisions to seek intellectual property
 	rights in global markets, particularly in China. We advance the notion
 	of quadic patent family, defined as a patent family that consists of
 	patent applications at the European Patent Office, the Japanese Patent
 	Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the national
 	patent office of a fourth country. We examine the determinants of quadic
 	patenting at the industry level for China, and at the country level for
 	a sample of 38 countries. Our results indicate that quadic patent
 	applications are driven by the need for accessing markets, and for
 	meeting the challenges of imitative threat and product market
 	competition. 
Classification-JEL: O31, O34
Keywords: Quadic patent family, triadic patent family, patent, innovation,
	imitative threat, Intellectual Property Right, China
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2012
Number: 2012-053
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2012/wp2012-053.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2012053