Trade mark cluttering-evidence from EU enlargement

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von Graevenitz, G. (2013) Trade mark cluttering-evidence from EU enlargement. Oxford Economic Papers, 65 (3). pp. 721-745. ISSN 0030-7653

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Abstract

This paper exploits enlargement of the European Union as a natural experiment to provide evidence for cluttering of the trade mark register in Europe. Enlargement increased regulatory uncertainty for pharmaceutical firms because the number of medical regulators that had to approve invented names for pharmaceutical products increased sharply at the time. The effects of this regulatory shock on pharmaceutical firms' trade mark application strategies are studied using Difference-in-Differences and bias adjusted matching estimators. It is shown that enlargement had a significant and quantitatively important effect on pharmaceutical firms' incentives to clutter trade mark registers with trade marks they are unlikely to use.

Item Type:	Article
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UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Responsible Business Regulation Group
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Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	20 Sep 2013 09:43
Last Modified:	23 Apr 2023 00:05
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/43371
DOI:	10.1093/oep/gpt022

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