Mortgage fraud, often a violation of federal and state criminal statutes, covers a number of different types of … residential mortgage loans. Mortgage fraud has become prevalent over the past decade and shows no signs of diminishing despite the … mortgage loan markets, subprime markets, and various types of mortgage fraud. This paper concludes that the root causes of …

Several recent judicial opinions suggest that patent law’s inequitable conduct doctrine is broken. These opinions … indicate that - despite its admirable objective of encouraging disclosure of important information to the Patent Office - the … inequitable conduct defense is being over-used by alleged infringers in patent litigation to the detriment of the public. This …

patent-regime change on world-fair exhibits per capita, which we use as a proxy for non-patented innovation. We interpret …This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced … adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German …

This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten … based on VaxPaL, a COVID-19 vaccines patent database developed by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Through the detailed … examination of patent applicants, filing dates, and offices of first and subsequent filing, the paper identifies patterns and …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …

strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data … strategy reveals there was an almost universal drop in patent social value in the second half of the 1990s, signaling a shift … companies increasing their focus on patent value relative to companies from other industries. On average, aerospace and software …

Antonio Araújo) on the PIPa method, or method of pre-patent research, which anticipates the filing of patents, to subvert the …

The role of individual inventors, small firms and entrepreneurs in the patent courts has become controversial for two … patents in cases filed in 2000 and 2002, we explore how the resolution of patent cases relates to the nature of the parties …. In particular, we examine whether individual inventors and entrepreneurs are ability to defend their patent rights and …

Continuations allow inventors to claim technology developed after the original filing date of their patent, leading to …

Innovation is an inherently uncertain process. Success is typically coupled with risk and we can only hope that those … with great ideas will persevere. To encourage innovation, society reduces some of the innovation risk through structures … simply stop playing the game.Such uncertainty has recently been a topic of great concern in the U.S. patent system. Some …