This is empirically false as Boldrin & Levine describe in chapter 9 of their book Against Intellectual Monopoly that countries which had no patent protection fo

This is empirically false as Boldrin & Levine describe in chapter 9 of their book Against Intellectual Monopoly that countries which had no patent protection for pharmaceuticals had a high innovation rate in this field. Link to chapter: http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/ip.ch.9.m1004.pdf http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/ip.ch.9.m1004.pdf