Notice of RetractionPatent Attitude: Transferring from Supply-Orientation to Demand- Orientation

Notice of Retraction

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Nowadays, intellectual property assets like patents constitute an important category of these knowledge assets, and are therefore of substantial interest to modern corporations. With cumulative innovation and multiple blocking patents, stronger patent rights can have the perverse effect of stifling, not encouraging, innovation. In this context, Applying for a patent is indeed a strategic decision that is not only driven by the desire to protect innovation rents, but also a highly valuable tool for technological negotiations with competitors or with potential collaborators, for the exclusion of rivals from a particular technological area, for licensing agreements and attraction of capital, for avoiding to be blocked by competitors´ patents, and for building competitive advantage. This article pointed out the shift of motivation for patent application actually implicates a shift from supply-orientation to demand-orientation in perspective of a company´s view on patent.