How Stronger Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Affects International Trade Flows

Technology Transfer and the Economic Implications of the Strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries

“…Empirically they find that the market expansion effect tends to dominate the market power effect so that stronger IPRs on balance expand trade. Fink and Primo Braga (1999) Smith (1999) finds that the impact of stronger patent protection on trade depends on the importing country's capacity to imitate (using R&D/GDP ratios as an indicator of the capacity to imitate). In countries with a weak capacity to imitate, the weak capacity acts as a de facto form of protection.…”

Patent Institution, Innovation and Economic Growth in China

“…Maskus and Penubarti (1995) find that strengthening patent protection has a positive impact on bilateral manufacturing imports into large developing economies, but a negative impact on small ones. Further, Fink and Primo Braga (1999) provide new evidence regarding the effects of patent protection on international trade. They confirm a positive link between patent protection and trade flows for the aggregate of non-fuel trade, but do not find a significant positive relationship between patent protection and high-technology trade flows.…”

Patentes y crecimiento económico, el caso de México durante el TLCAN

“…Antecedidos por las discusiones en la Ronda de Uruguay en el marco del gatt, los Acuerdos de Propiedad Intelectual Relativos al Comercio (adpic) fue la propuesta regulatoria de la omc, orientada a armonizar el fortalecimiento de las patentes y demás derechos de propiedad intelectual (Fink y Braga, 2005;Constatinos, et al, 2016). Algunos especialistas los identifican como estándares mínimos .…”