inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent …From the perspective of antitrust authorities, the multiplication of patents embodied in technology standards is a … source of concerns. Certainly it is necessary and efficient that patents owners derive a revenue from the use of the standard …

How do financial markets respond to firms' efforts at innovation ? To answer this question, we measure innovation by … creating a synthetic indicator based on a firm's recent history of R&D expenditure and patent applications. We focus on four 2 …. Whilst standard regression techniques find a positive relationship between innovation and growth, quantile regression …

protection across industries to appropriate innovation. …

in terms of innovation and use of legal proceedings. …

The paper analyzes the interplay between technology diffusion and patent law. We develop a dynamic model where initial … diffusion paths under competitive supply, subsidized adoption and patent protection. Competitive supply entails various … coordination failures that cannot be fully …fixed through a public subsidy. We show that a patent holder can internalize …

category of rules consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R … economic consequences of imposing either Plant Breeders' Rights (PBRs) or patents as IPRs and either compulsory registration or … minimum standards as commercialisation rules. The main result is that the combination of minimum standards and PBRs (patents …

This paper investigates the choice of an intellectual protection regime for a process innovation. We set up a multi …-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters : the patent strength defined as … the probability that the right is upheld by the court, the cost of imitating a patented innovation relative to the cost of …