This report tries to assess quantitatively patenting activities in a number of Latin American countries using three databases: the USPTO CESPRI database, the EPO CESPRI database and the PCT- WIPO database. These databases cover the universe of the patent applied for by Latin American individuals or companies or invented by Latin American inventors at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and at the European Patent Office (EPO). In particular this report analyses patenting activity focussing on the actor involved (inventors and applicants) and on the international technological specialisation over time of some Latin American countries and tries to track the connections between some fundamental economic variables like labour productivity and the trade balance and the processes of technological accumulation. The following questions are under scrutiny: - Which are the actors involved in the patenting activity in Latin America? - How much growth do we observe in international patenting in different Latin American countries vis à vis other developing and advanced countries? - Are there differences in the analysis of patenting activity selecting the nationality of the patent on the basis of the inventors’ address or the applicants’ address? - What is the average quality of Latin American patenting? - Where do the knowledge embedded in Latin American countries comes from? - Which are the technological absolute and relative advantages of a number of Latin American countries? How do they compare with other areas in the world in particular East Asian countries. - Which are the patterns of technological specialisation ? The important issue here is whether countries become increasingly technologically specialised and whether they are becoming more similar in terms of technological activity. - Is there any relationship between the technological activity - as measured by patents - and production, value added and productivity?. The final step is therefore adding some economic data to assess the economic impact of patenting activity at the different patent offices.
Patenting Activity in Latin American and Caribbean Countries
MONTOBBIO, FABIO
2007-01-01
Abstract
This report tries to assess quantitatively patenting activities in a number of Latin American countries using three databases: the USPTO CESPRI database, the EPO CESPRI database and the PCT- WIPO database. These databases cover the universe of the patent applied for by Latin American individuals or companies or invented by Latin American inventors at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and at the European Patent Office (EPO). In particular this report analyses patenting activity focussing on the actor involved (inventors and applicants) and on the international technological specialisation over time of some Latin American countries and tries to track the connections between some fundamental economic variables like labour productivity and the trade balance and the processes of technological accumulation. The following questions are under scrutiny: - Which are the actors involved in the patenting activity in Latin America? - How much growth do we observe in international patenting in different Latin American countries vis à vis other developing and advanced countries? - Are there differences in the analysis of patenting activity selecting the nationality of the patent on the basis of the inventors’ address or the applicants’ address? - What is the average quality of Latin American patenting? - Where do the knowledge embedded in Latin American countries comes from? - Which are the technological absolute and relative advantages of a number of Latin American countries? How do they compare with other areas in the world in particular East Asian countries. - Which are the patterns of technological specialisation ? The important issue here is whether countries become increasingly technologically specialised and whether they are becoming more similar in terms of technological activity. - Is there any relationship between the technological activity - as measured by patents - and production, value added and productivity?. The final step is therefore adding some economic data to assess the economic impact of patenting activity at the different patent offices.
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