Effects of the European Union trademark: Lessons for the harmonization of intellectual property systems

Herz, Benedikt; Mejer, Malwina

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2019.04.010

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“…On the other hand, it is widely accepted in the literature that innovations are a fundamental element in maintaining competitive advantage [29]. Both government sectors and firms are conscious of the advantages gained by registering property rights to the innovations developed [18]. Still, the importance of property rights in sustainable contexts has rarely been analyzed.…”

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“…According to the WIPO, copyright applies to creations and original works, protects ways of expressing ideas rather than the idea itself, and generally lasts for 20 years. Most preceding research has analyzed property rights related to patents and brands [18] and has not addressed utility models, much less copyright.…”

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“…We also stress that opening the European Union (EU) single market has increased the use of intellectual property rights [18]. Despite this increase, and despite the importance the EU attributes to property rights, scholarship that analyzes the progress of these rights in the EU is minimal [18]. Intellectual property rights have been considered as a temporary way to protect investment in innovations against imitation [19].…”

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“…Further, most prior studies investigate the impact of intellectual property, attending fundamentally to patent and branding rights [18]. The intellectual property rights that the EU details are, however, right to patents, branding, utility models, and copyright.…”

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Knowledge Transfer in Sustainable Contexts: A Comparative Analysis of Periods of Financial Recession and Expansion

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Examining the knowledge transfer process in sustainable contexts, we identified various gaps, which we analyzed in this study. First, we compare the temporal context of firms with eco-innovation strategies before and after the financial crisis of the first decade of the 21st century. Second, we analyze the firms’ knowledge transfer, from the use of knowledge sources to innovation through intellectual property. Third, we consider the influence of firm age on firms with eco-innovation goals and the influence of size on intellectual property. We used data from a sample of 3004 firms prepared by the Spanish National Statistics Institute for two different time periods: 2009 and 2014. Our results suggest that firms that achieve sustainable innovations do not show large differences in behavior in the two economic periods. We found that knowledge in firms with eco-innovation goals is transferred through intellectual property. The results show that firm age and size influence these processes during the years analyzed and thus have various implications for theory and for small firms, which are generally family firms. Small and family firms should strengthen their registration of intellectual property so that their knowledge transfer process ends in innovations for both the firm and the market.

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“…Our article thus connects the literature on price differences for homogenous products with a literature that studies the fragmentation of IP rights systems in Europe. Examples are Mejer and van Pottelsberghe (2010), who document the costs of the fragmented European patent system, as well as Herz and Mejer (2019) and Beukel et al (2017), who study the effects of the partial harmonization of the EU system for trademarks and designs, respectively. While the existing literature mostly focuses on the effect of fragmentation on the administrative costs for applicants, we provide evidence of the effect of the fragmentation of IP rights systems on product market outcomes.…”

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The effect of design protection on price and price dispersion: Evidence from automotive spare parts

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Mejer

2021

International Journal of Industrial Organization

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The design right is a widely used but poorly understood intellectual property right that allows the protection of products' aesthetics and outer appearances. We study the influence of design right protection on price by exploiting cross-country differences in the scope of protection in the European automotive spare parts market: In some countries, repair parts are exempted from design protection, while in others they are not. Based on detailed price data, our difference-in-differences estimates imply that design protection increases prices by about 5-8%, with large differences between carmakers. We then link our findings to the literature on deviations from the law of one price. We document large cross-country price deviations for identical spare parts and provide evidence that a part of these price deviations can be explained by the lack of harmonization of design right protection in combination with carmakers' pricing-to-market strategies.

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Systemic technology innovation management and analysis of other forms of IP protection

Jemala

2022

International Journal of Innovation Studies

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Effects of the European Union trademark: Lessons for the harmonization of intellectual property systems

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Knowledge Transfer in Sustainable Contexts: A Comparative Analysis of Periods of Financial Recession and Expansion

Knowledge Transfer in Sustainable Contexts: A Comparative Analysis of Periods of Financial Recession and Expansion

The effect of design protection on price and price dispersion: Evidence from automotive spare parts

Systemic technology innovation management and analysis of other forms of IP protection

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