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090980
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2009.
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In patent, institutional design matters, and goals matter to institutional design. This article concerns the institutional design of mechanisms that can be used by third parties to challenge the validity of proposed or granted patents in the patent office-oppositions, revocations and similar processes. This article traces the various goals of these mechanisms, and how those goals have changed over time. It argues that recent economic and legal literature, which has influenced proposals for reforming these systems, is altogether too neat and tidy, treating public interest participants as interfering busybodies. It is better to acknowledge and embrace groups like Peer to Patent and the Public Patent Foundation, and think about how, in the long term, we can adjust aspects of the patent system to incorporate public input without too much sacrifice to politics and uncertainty.
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105826
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2011.
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the administrative procedures for the granting of authorisations for the siting of wind farms in Spain, currently the competency of regional authorities. The analysis reveals some commonalities and differences between the procedures across regions. Furthermore, some aspects regarding these procedures have raised the concern of different stakeholders, including the central government and wind energy investors. A conflict between the interests of the central and regional governments can be observed. Lack of coordination between the different administrative levels and the "more is better mentality" of regional authorities have led to a significant growth of wind energy requests for the (national) feed-in tariff. In turn, investors have complained about the discretionarity and non-transparency of those procedures and the lack of homogeneity across regions. This is likely to result in delays, uncertainty for investors and higher transaction costs. Although there has been a trend to a model which involves the use of multicriteria bidding procedures with more explicit, objective and precise criteria regarding project selection, the aforementioned problems suggest the need to improve coordination between the different administrative levels.
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107487
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2011.
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the administrative procedures for the granting of authorisations for the siting of wind farms in Spain, currently the competency of regional authorities. The analysis reveals some commonalities and differences between the procedures across regions. Furthermore, some aspects regarding these procedures have raised the concern of different stakeholders, including the central government and wind energy investors. A conflict between the interests of the central and regional governments can be observed. Lack of coordination between the different administrative levels and the "more is better mentality" of regional authorities have led to a significant growth of wind energy requests for the (national) feed-in tariff. In turn, investors have complained about the discretionarity and non-transparency of those procedures and the lack of homogeneity across regions. This is likely to result in delays, uncertainty for investors and higher transaction costs. Although there has been a trend to a model which involves the use of multicriteria bidding procedures with more explicit, objective and precise criteria regarding project selection, the aforementioned problems suggest the need to improve coordination between the different administrative levels.
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