期刊名称：AESTIMATIO : the IEB International Journal of Finance
印刷版ISSN：2173-0164
出版年度：2013
期号：6
页码：8-19
出版社：Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles
摘要：In this paper, we focus on correcting the misconception that patent protection always limits the use of intellectual property to its inventor or someone who purchases the rights from the inventor. We will show that this hardly reflects the whole reality of how patents are, and should be, used by inventors and firms. Rather, one of the most useful goals of the patent system is to disseminate technical information about inventions. Patents provide a powerful mechanism for disseminating technical information since each patent a pplication is a publicly a vailable document that describes the invention in detail, including its principles of operation, its advantages, how to replicate it, and how to use it. Thus, patents make it feasible economically for an inventor to show a prospective licensee the details of the invention without any danger that the idea will be stolen. By broadcasting the fruits of the inventing efforts of a single individual or company, the world receives the benefit of that information and economic productivity is increased.
关键词：Patents; Intellectual property; Innovation; Technology; Dissemination; Licensing ; Research & Development; General welfare.
