Modelos matemáticos y políticas de patentes. : Una revisión sistemática de la literatura reciente (2012-2022)

Leandro Meller

doi:10.24310/recta.26.1.2025.20797

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Leandro Meller Departamento de Economía, UNS Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1246-4198

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https://doi.org/10.24310/recta.26.1.2025.20797

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innovation, intellectual property rights, patent policy, optimization

Abstract

The aim of this work is to present a systematic review of recent literature on optimal patent policy ―understood as the simultaneous choice of patent length (duration) and breadth (scope)― within the framework of mathematical models representing the behaviour of an economic system or a sector of it. The search, conducted in the Scopus repository, revealed that during the period considered (2012-2022) only eight articles analyse both the length and breadth of patents within the framework of a mathematical model, none of which analyse the optimal length and breadth for complementary patents or innovations. It was also found that there is no consensus in the literature on the advisability of implementing a system of infinite length or maximum breadth patents

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