Patent boxes and the success rate of applications

Patent boxes significantly reduce the tax rate applied to income earned from a patent. Existing work finds that those reductions increase the number of patents. That said, not all patents are equally novel. In particular, the patent box encourages the submission of patents of marginal novelty, a sel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Davies, RB, Kogler, DF, Hynes, R
Format: Conference item
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation 2020