Governmental policies to encourage atenting: a literature review / Políticas governamentais de incentivo ao patenteamento: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

The amount of patent applications filed each year in the world’s leading patent offices has increasedsignificantly over the past few decades. One of the factors identified as motivating this increase is the government’spolicies to encourage patenting. This paper aims to review some incentive policies adopted around the worldand, mainly, review the history of these policies in Brazil. In this context, the article addressed the Bayh-DoleAct of 1980 in the United States; the reform of Intellectual Property (IP) rights in German Universities in 2002;the financial incentives policy to the national depositor initiated in the 90’s by the Chinese government; and the2004 Innovation Law in Brazil.