Intellectual property law and the boundaries of the firm
By: Oren Bar-Gill & Gideon Parchomovsky.
Contributors: Parchomovsky, Gideon.; John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 480; Discussion paper (John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business : Online) -- no. 480.
Publisher: Harvard Law School
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Arrow's disclosure paradox implies that information that is not afforded legal protection cannot be bought or sold on the market.  This paper emphasizes the important relationship between the paradox of disclosure and the boundaries of the firm question.  Only legally protected inventions, i.e., patented inventions, may be traded; pre-patent stages of the innovation process may not.  Consequently, by force of law, rather than by the guidance of economic principle, pre-patent innovation must be carried out within the boundaries of a single firm"--John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business web site.
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