Strategic Patent Policy and Infringement Litigation

• Project/Area Number: 26380281
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Ohno Yuka 北海道大学, 経済学研究科, 教授 (50598480)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: 知的財産権 / 知的所有権 / 特許 / パテント / 研究開発 / 情報収集 / モデル構築

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we investigated the effect of patent infringement litigation on firms' incentive to innovate and to adopt newly developed technologies in their products, by modeling patent infringement litigations in details. We found that uncertainties associated with patent infringement litigations tend to affect technological advancement of firms negatively, and hence to reduce competitiveness of domestic firms.