We develop a unique dataset of 24 thousand U.S. finance patents granted over last two decades to explore the evolution … and production of financial innovation. We use machine learning to identify the financial patents and extensively audit … matter of financial patents has changed, consistent with the industry's shift in revenue and value-added towards household …

financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A … number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decisions themselves …. This paper reviews the history of business method and financial patents briefly and then explores what economists know …

This paper examines the litigation of patents relating to financial products and services. I show that these grants are … being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated are …

decision that greatly accelerated the rate of financial patenting. I conclude by exploring how the origins of financial patents …