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Murray Stern (2005) - Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder The Free Flow Of Scientific Knowledge (view source)
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There is a delay in patent granting; generally patents are granted 2-4 years after application. Therefore there is a pre-grant period (where no IP rights are present) and a post-grant period. To the extend that the issue comes as a 'surprise', the grant may affect the citations and therefore the impact of the scientific research in the public domain. Note that citations are only a noisy measure of the impact. Futhermore, a reduction may not be due to the issue per se, but rather how the IPR is enforced.
The paper claims to exploit '''three key aspects ''' of the paper-patent pairs phenomenon:#A significant fraction of researchers choose to '''forego formal IPR'''.#Even with formal IPR there is a '''significant delay ''' in issue of the rights#'''Future citations ''' are a '''noisy but useful measure ''' of the impact of a publication.
'''The paper tests''' are citation patterns different for scientific knowledge that is ultimately patented?
'''The control group is''' papers without patents that are 'at risk' of being patented, i.e. in the same journal, at the same time. A patent attorney determined that they were patentable.
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