Collection and Remanufacturing of Waste Products under Patent Protection and Government Regulation

Abstract

There is increasing academic and pragmatic interest in leveraging patent rights to invigorate remanufacturing for waste products under governmental interventions via regulations and reward-penalty instruments. In practice, many original manufacturers that are possessed with intellectual property rights allow third-party remanufacturers to implement reproducing operations through authorization and charging licensing fees. The general purpose of this paper is to explore favorable strategies for a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) system of waste product collection and remanufacturing, in the context of either manufacturer-remanufacturing or remanufacturer-remanufacturing. To achieve such an objective, game theory is adopted to establish models of three collection and remanufacturing modes among channel members involving a manufacturer, a seller, and a remanufacturer. In so doing, the results show that a government's allocations of elementary remanufacturing ratio and the unit amount of reward-penalty count significantly in CLSC operations, especially for the manufacturer, who acts as the leader in the system and makes mode selections.

Optimal Operational Decision Making of Manufacturers and Authorized Remanufacturers with Patent Licensing under Carbon Cap-and-Trade Regulations

“…Based on this study, Hong et al [20] investigated the optimal collection and remanufacturing decisions by considering competition not only in the forward channel but also in the reverse one. Further, Zhang et al [32] studied the same decisions but combing with government policy, and Huang and Wang [33] analyzed the effects of strategic consumer behavior on different remanufacturing scenarios. Considering different authorized members, Zhao et al [34] developed the operational decision models of OEMs and retailers with two cases, one of which the OEMs remanufacture and the other is to authorize remanufacturing to the retailers.…”

“…By considering trade-ins for remanufactured products, Miao et al [41] derived the optimal pricing and production decisions under cap-and-trade regulations. Zhang et al [32,42] further introduced green innovation into a hybrid manufacturing and remanufacturing system and examined the joint pricing strategies and green innovation policy.…”

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Competing Reverse Channels’ Performance with Sustainable Recycle Innovation Input

“…A mathematical model is developed considering the cost of implementation and the design of the proposed RFID based recovery channel. Reference [30] contributed on waste product collection and remanufacturing by taking the intellectual property rights of the original manufacturer into consideration. Reference [31] found that during the pretreatment process, the failure to operate on high-value materials caused significant economic losses (from 2006 to 2014, computer and mobile phone losses exceeded 70 million dollars).…”

Public Awareness of Remanufactured Products in Yangtze River Delta of China: Present Status, Problems and Recommendations

“…Owing to technology innovation and mass industrial production, new products have burgeoned around the world, generating many waste products, and severely affecting the environment [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. Confronting the situation, remanufacturing, which involves a series of processes that restore end-of-life products, parts or components, and returns them back to as-new conditions, has become a global strategy to deal with the massive amount of scrapped products [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ]. The scrapped products processed by remanufacturing are referred as “Remanufactured Products” which can match the same properties and performance of the original ones [ 10 , 11 , 12 ].…”