This research explores the cultural origins of observed differences in the strength of patent rights across countries. The analysis establishes empirically that pairwise differences in patent rights strength between countries are associated with their cultural differences relative to the United...

Chinese universities in recent decades have experienced a wave of surging patenting activities. Is the increase in patenting activities evidence that Chinese universities have been catching up with their counterparts outside of China, or are there low-quality “patent bubbles” with the surge?...

In this paper I consider the construction of patents as social practices. The goal is to observe patents in action, that is, to catch patents in the act of becoming patents. This method of “following the action” is well established in the scientific arena, where the processes that lead from...

Since 1995, patents in the United States expire twenty years from the day they were filed. Except when they don’t. Beginning in 2000, Congress provided certain “exceptions” to the twenty-year patent term, extending the life of patents to compensate for excessive delays in patent...

Technical standards help to drive the modern global economy. New standards directed to the so called “Internet of Things” (IoT), the “5G” suite of standards, and other next generation standardised technologies have become essential to enabling interoperability across a variety of...

We develop a dynamic structural model of patent screening incorporating incentives, intrinsic motivation, and multi-round negotiation. We estimate the model using detailed data on examiner decisions and employ natural language processing to create a new measure of patent distance that enables us...

The main purpose of the article is to attempt a new direction of interpretation over the all-element rule and territoriality under patent law through the point of patent value to assuage the challenges from emerging technologies. As a novel contribution for the studies upon patent law, the...

In this paper, we empirically examine how consumers perceive patented over-the-counter pharmaceutical goods. To gauge consumer preferences for such products, we draw upon evidence from two experiments we developed and conducted. In an online randomized experiment, we demonstrate increased...