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Motohashi, Kazuyuki --- "Current situation and vision of the patent system: from the perspective of economics" [2012] ELECD 1190; in Shimanami, Ryo (ed), "The Future of the Patent System" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012) 33

Book Title: The Future of the Patent System

Editor(s): Shimanami, Ryo

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781000533

Section: Chapter 2

Section Title: Current situation and vision of the patent system: from the perspective of economics

Author(s): Motohashi, Kazuyuki

Number of pages: 46

Abstract/Description:

The purpose of the Japanese Patent Act is stipulated as follows: “The purpose of this Act is, through promoting the protection and the utilization of inventions, to encourage inventions, and thereby to contribute to the development of industry” (Article 1 of the Act). I would like to suggest what the patent system should be like in order “to contribute to the development of industry” after organizing issues from an economics perspective in this chapter.