Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
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SIEPR Discussion Paper 09-026
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07/27/10
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Abstract:
Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without
the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after
World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the effects of compulsory licensing on
domestic invention. Difference-in-differences analyses of nearly 130,000 chemical inventions suggest
that compulsory licensing increased domestic invention by 20 percent
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