yield lower rates of innovation, lower product quality and lower consumers' welfare. -- Patents ; appropriability of …

previous measures of patent scope (i.e. the number of patent classes, the number of citations made by future patents, and the … then demonstrate the power of this instrument by examining standard-essential patents. We show that an (exogenous …) diminishment of patent scope leads to patents being much less likely to be declared standard-essential …

Designing around patents is prevalent but not often appreciated as a means by which patents promote economic … claims. We study the filing rate of incandescent lamp-related patents during 1878-1898 and find that the enforcement of … the lamps described in these lamp patents and compared them to Edison’s claimed invention to create a count of non …

Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repeatedly fail to … misbehavior, we can catch a glimpse of the social roles patents play when no one is watching. Drawing on insights from the … sociology of markets, I argue that patents are surreptitiously performing functions familiar from the grocery store, the …

understudied market for patents, widely believed to be illiquid and inefficient, with fundamental research about how markets …

different technological conditions emphasized by Merges & Nelson (1990) and as a function of different dimensions of patents … the determinants of the Social costs and benefits of patents. These social effects are mainly characterized at two levels … four classes of technologies in which the role of patents can be strongly contrasted: discrete inventions, cumulative …