Travail de recherche/Working paper
| Résumé : | This paper provides new evidence about the budgetary consequences– for patent offices – of the coexistence of the forthcoming UnitaryPatent (UP) with the current European Patent (EP). Simulation resultsillustrate a dilemma between (1) high UP renewal fees to ensureenough financial income for all national patent offices (NPOs) and (2)low UP renewal fees to make the UP system affordable, with very fewNPOs losing on financial revenues. The simulations help to understandthe positions of several patent offices, and underline an alternative wayto proceed with the negotiations while reducing financial risks for thewhole system. |
