Extending Patent Life: Is it in Australia's Economic Interests?
Industry Commission staff information paper
This paper by Nicholas Gruen, Ian Bruce and Gerard Prior was released on 3 June 1996.
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Contents
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgments and Executive Summary
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The economics and political economy of intellectual property
Retrospective and prospective changes to patent terms
International issues
Producers' and consumers' interests and the political economy of intellectual property
Chapter 3 Methodology
Chapter 4 The volume of patents
Patent applications and grants
The stock of patents in Australia
Chapter 5 The value of patents
The decline in patent values over the patent term
Aggregating to the national level
Applying the model to Australia
Chapter 6 Results
Chapter 7 Conclusions
Multilateral extension of patent terms is not in Australia's economic interests
Agreeing to extend patent terms may have been in Australia's broader interests
The political economy of IP seems weighted in favour of net producers/exporters of IP
Improving information
Opportunities for further research
Appendix A Quantity Data
Appendix B Unit Value Estimations
Appendix C Sectoral Distributions
Appendix D Annual Costs of Extending Patent Terms
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