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Patent policies (OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2012)
A patent is a legal title that gives the holder the right to exclude others from using a particular invention. If the invention is successful on the market the patent holder will profit from its monopoly power. Patents therefore allow inventors to internalise more of the benefits they generate: without such a mechanism inventions would be immediately imitated and inventors' return on their investment would be reduced. Patents are granted in return for disclosure of the invention: they therefore play a role in the diffusion of knowledge. Inventors and firms apply for patents at patent offices, which grant (or reject) patents for their jurisdiction (domestic market), in accordance with their legal statute. Most patent offices are national; the main exception is the European Patent Office (EPO).

Country Reports

- Economic stability and quality of institutions in the Netherlands (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in the Netherlands), 2015
- Overview of food and agriculture challenges and performance in Canada (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Canada), 2015
- Economic stability and trust in institutions in Canada (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Canada), 2015
- Overall assessment and recommendations (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Canada), 2015
- Investment in the Brazilian food and agriculture system (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Brazil), 2015
Thematic Reports

- Innovation today (The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- Classifying Patents by Different Criteria (OECD Patent Statistics Manual), 2009
- The Impact and Effectiveness of Support Measures for Exploiting Intellectual Property, 2012
- Facilitating North-South Knowledge Sharing: Conditions for Enhanced Knowledge Flows (Innovation and the Development Agenda), 2010
- Pre-Emptive Patenting: Securing Market Exclusion and Freedom of Operation, 2009
What Countries are Doing
Published by OECD in 2012
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Relevant IPP Pages

- Aspects and availability of patent data
- Industrial design
- International agreements on IP
- Substantive patent law
- Utility model law
- International bodies on IP
- Trade secrets
- Trademarks
- Bayh-Dole and related regulation
- IP and innovation in ICT
- IP licensing and sales by universities and PRIs
- IP operations and procedures
- IP to address social challenges
- Patent costs
- Patent data - Emerging technologies
- Patent data - Globalisation of research
- Patent data - Patenting strategies of firms
- Patent data - The performance of firms, regions and countries
- Patents
- Proliferation of patents
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