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Why are they hiding? Patent secrecy and patenting strategies
Innovation ( IF 3.4 ) Pub Date : 2019-11-11 , DOI: 10.1080/14479338.2019.1685886
Juliana Pavan Dornelles 1, 2
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ABSTRACT

Patents provide a mechanism to protect inventors from having their inventions imitated by competitors in exchange for a detailed disclosure of the patented invention. However, the disclosure requirement might enable any interested and skilled audiences to understand and replicate the knowledge conveyed by the patent document. The enactment of the American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA) on 29 November 2000 required US patent applicants to have their patent application published 18 months after the filing date. The AIPA allows patentees to choose the option of keeping their application secret, relinquishing foreign patent protection. This paper investigates what variables are associated with the decisions made by large companies to keep a patent secret until its granting, using a sample of granted patents applied for by publicly traded companies between 2000 and 2009. In particular, we study the effect of technological crowdedness, strategic use of in-house knowledge stock and invention radicalness on the option for the publication of pre-grant patent applications. The variables relate the reason to opt-out of patent application publication to industry characteristics (competition), firm’s characteristics (internal knowledge) and innovation characteristics (radicalness). Results show a negative association between technological crowdedness and pre-grant secrecy, as well as between secrecy and the use of in-house knowledge stock. Conversely, radicalness is positively associated with the likelihood of a patent application being secret until its granting.



中文翻译:

他们为什么躲起来?专利保密和专利策略

摘要

专利提供了一种机制,可以保护发明人避免其发明人被竞争对手模仿,以换取专利发明的详细披露。然而,公开要求可以使任何感兴趣的和熟练的读者能够理解和复制专利文件所传达的知识。2000年11月29日颁布的《美国发明人保护法》(AIPA)要求美国专利申请人在申请日后18个月内公开其专利申请。AIPA允许专利权人选择对自己的申请保密的选项,放弃外国专利保护。本文研究了哪些变量与大公司在授予专利之前一直对其保密的决策有关,使用了2000年至2009年间公开交易的公司所申请的授权专利样本。特别是,我们研究了技术拥挤,内部知识库的战略使用和发明激进性对授予授权前专利的选择的影响应用程序。这些变量将选择退出专利申请的原因与行业特征(竞争),公司特征(内部知识)和创新特征(激进性)联系起来。结果表明,技术拥挤与授予前的保密性以及保密性与内部知识储备的使用之间存在负相关关系。相反,激进与专利申请被授予之前是秘密的可能性成正相关。我们研究了技术拥挤,内部知识储备的战略性使用和发明的激进性对授予许可前的专利申请的出版选择的影响。这些变量将选择退出专利申请的原因与行业特征(竞争),公司特征(内部知识)和创新特征(激进性)联系起来。结果表明,技术拥挤与授权前保密之间以及保密与内部知识储备的使用之间存在负相关关系。相反,激进与专利申请被授予之前是秘密的可能性成正相关。我们研究了技术拥挤,内部知识储备的战略性使用和发明的激进性对授予许可前的专利申请的出版选择的影响。这些变量将选择退出专利申请的原因与行业特征(竞争),公司特征(内部知识)和创新特征(激进性)联系起来。结果表明,技术拥挤与授予前的保密性以及保密性与内部知识储备的使用之间存在负相关关系。相反,激进与专利申请被授予之前是秘密的可能性成正相关。这些变量将选择退出专利申请的原因与行业特征(竞争),公司特征(内部知识)和创新特征(激进性)联系起来。结果表明,技术拥挤与授权前保密之间以及保密与内部知识库的使用之间存在负相关关系。相反,激进与专利申请被授予之前是秘密的可能性成正相关。这些变量将选择退出专利申请的原因与行业特征(竞争),公司特征(内部知识)和创新特征(激进性)联系起来。结果表明,技术拥挤与授权前保密之间以及保密与内部知识库的使用之间存在负相关关系。相反,激进与专利申请被授予之前是秘密的可能性成正相关。

更新日期:2019-11-11
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