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Are Foreigners Treated Equally under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement?

de Rassenfosse, Gaetan  
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Jensen, Paul H.
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Julius, T'Mir
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November 1, 2019
Journal Of Law & Economics

The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, administered by the World Trade Organization, ensures the smooth functioning of the international patent system. It promises among other things that local and foreign firms are treated in the same, nondiscriminatory manner. We test for whether the national treatment principle has been upheld in the five largest patent offices and document the existence of a systematic bias against foreign firms in patent examination decisions. We find that filing international patent applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty can reduce some of the bias.

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research article
DOI
10.1086/705801
Web of Science ID

WOS:000511943400004

Author(s)
de Rassenfosse, Gaetan  
Jensen, Paul H.
Julius, T'Mir
Palangkaraya, Alfons
Webster, Elizabeth
Date Issued

2019-11-01

Publisher

UNIV CHICAGO PRESS

Published in
Journal Of Law & Economics
Volume

62

Issue

4

Start page

663

End page

685

Subjects

Economics

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Law

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Business & Economics

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Government & Law

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patent examination

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barrier

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economy

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REVIEWED

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