,786 public corporations, and measures of both patent quality and patent value, we find that, while average invention value rises … with size, average invention quality declines, suggesting, per our model, that the large firm advantage is not due to …

success of the invention. Prize-oriented institutions thus appear to be less systematic and not as market-oriented as patent …Such institutions as patent systems cannot be well understood without an assessment of technological creativity in …

century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents …) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization ("license" patents). The data include a large number of "license …" patents that cannot be linked to government funding from patent text or other sources. Combining the historical data with …

This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which over 11,000 U ….S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders which halted examination and prohibited inventors from disclosing their … compulsory invention secrecy reduced follow-on invention and restricted commercialization, but as part of the security policies …

patent. The discovery of the periodic table in 1869 offers an opportunity to test this idea. Exhibition data show that …

We analyze the impact of accession to the regional patent system established by the European Patent Convention (EPC) on … applicants at the national patent offices and the European Patent Office (EPO). Our findings suggest a strong change in patent … filing behavior among foreigners seeking patent protection in the accession states, substituting EPO patents for domestic …

trade in patent rights was closely associated with increases in specialization at invention, as well as advances in rates of … invention more generally. The patent system is often celebrated for the stimulus to invention provided by granting limited … technological knowledge. Relying on evidence compiled from patent records, we argue that the evolution of a market for technology …

received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic … procedures for application, the United States deliberately created a patent system that allowed a much wider range, in … patent institutions. Moreover, by requiring that applications be examined for novelty by technical experts, and by enforcing …

institutional supports that made this market possible was, of course, the patent system, which created secure and tradable property … rights in invention. But trade was also facilitated by the emergence of intermediaries who economized on the information … costs associated with assessing the value of inventions and helped to match sellers and buyers of patent rights. Patent …