The Global Distribution of Trademarks: Some Stylised Facts
The Global Distribution of Trademarks: Some Stylised Facts
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10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00706.x
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2004-04
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E. Baroncelli;C. Fink;B. Javorcik
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作者：
E. Baroncelli;C. Fink;B. Javorcik
商标是标识商品由特定个人或公司制造的文字、标志、符号或其组合，从而使消费者能够区分源自不同来源的商品。商标属于更广泛的知识产权（IPRs），一旦注册，就可受益于法律的保护，防止法律的所有人以外的实体未经授权使用。虽然有些人认为，知识产权的跨界注册可能与从发展中国家向工业化国家的福利转移有关，但令人惊讶的是，人们对全球知识产权制度的一个重要组成部分，即商标注册的全球分布知之甚少。这项研究为填补文献中的这一空白迈出了第一步。其目的是提出一些新的程式化的事实，这些事实来自对作者根据世界知识产权组织（知识产权组织）公布的统计资料汇编的数据集的分析。感兴趣的问题包括商标在不同收入水平国家之间的分布情况、外国居民在商标注册中所占的份额及其在不同收入群体中的差异、穷国参与国际商标体系的程度以及注册在不同经济部门中的分布情况。
Trademarks are words, signs, symbols, or combinations thereof that identify goods as manufactured by a particular person or a company, therefore allowing consumers to distinguish between goods originating in different sources. Trademarks belong to the wider family of intellectual property rights (IPRs), and once registered benefit from legal protection against unauthorized use by entities other than the legal owner. While some suggest that cross-border registrations of IPRs may be associated with welfare transfers from developing to industrial countries, surprisingly little is known about an important component of the global IPR system, namely, the worldwide distribution of trademark registrations. This study provides the first step in filling this gap in the literature. Its purpose is to present some new stylized facts which emerge from the analysis of a dataset compiled by the authors based on the statistical information published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Questions of interest include the distribution of trademarks between countries of different income levels, the share of trademark registrations accounted for by foreign residents and its variation across different income groups, the extent to which poor countries participate in the international trademark system, and the distribution of registrations across different sectors of the economy.