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SUMMARY:MTEI Seminar by Prof. Stuart Graham\, Georgia Institute of Technol
 ogy
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Stuart Graham\, Georgia Institute of Technology\n"Do Inv
 entors Value Secrecy in Patenting? Evidence from the American Inventor's P
 rotection Act of 1999"Abstract\nThis study examines the revealed preferenc
 es of inventors towards secrecy in patenting by analyzing their disclosure
  choices before and after the enactment of the American Inventor’s Prote
 ction Act (AIPA) of 1999. We find that about 7.5% of U.S. patent applicati
 ons use AIPA’s provisions to keep their inventions secret before patent 
 grant. Small U.S. inventors\, in particular\, are more likely than large c
 orporations to prefer disclosure over secrecy for their most important inv
 entions. Our findings question the conventional wisdom -- which seems to h
 ave shaped important policy -- that the disclosure of patent applications 
 harms U.S. invention by increasing the risk of imitation for small invento
 rs.Keywords: patents\, intellectual property\, American Inventor’s Prote
 ction Act
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