The effect of patents on trade

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Funding Acknowledgements

Author order is randomised. This work was financed by the Australian Research Council [ARC Linkage Grant LP110100266 "The Efficiency of the Global Patent System"] with partners IP Australia and the Institute of Patent and Trademark Attorneys. We wish to thank two anonymous referees, Chris Dent, Keith Maskus, Russell Thomson, Gaetan de Rassenfosse, Denis Yao, Brian Wright, Giancarlo Moschini, Ben Jones, Michael Powell, Shireen AlAzzawi, Thibault Fally, Elisabeth Miller, Philipp Bbing, Manuel Tratjenberg, Francesco Lissoni, Joachim Henkel and seminar participants at UC Berkeley, University of Santa Clara, German Graduate School of Management and Law, Bordeaux University, and Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University for comments. And special thanks to T'Mir Julius for preparing the data on blocking patent citations.