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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE
Volume 52, Issue 2, Pages 375-423Publisher
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/jel.52.2.375
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We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the trade-offs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look briefly at the use of other means of formal intellectual property protection.
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