We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm’s U.S. inventors and cross …

attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its …

markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …

university patents are more readable. Combining the multiple measures using principal component analysis, we find that the gap in … patents become less readable is use of multiple examples to mask the “best mode” of inventions. By confirming that … computational linguistic measures are useful indicators of readability of patents, we suggest that the disclosure function of …

patents make R&D more attractive, but the effect on static efficiency is nonmonotonic. In a North.South model, where only the …