Innovators seek to protect their intellectual assets by patenting them, at the same
time trying to avoid any disclosure of critical knowledge. Given that a patent
specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so that anybody
“skilled in the art” is enabled to reproduce the invention, the non-disclosure
intention seems contradictory to patent law. This paper provides a model identifying
the incentives for firms to deliberately obscure their inventive knowledge
in a patent specification.
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