stage of the patenting process and the interplay with the patent office. This is followed by considering the perspective of … the patent and trademark offices (PTOs), in particular, acknowledging the limited resources that are available to PTOs … ; pending patents ; innovation ; patent office overload ; patent inspection ; grant delays …

sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

treatment. After describing the determination of national policies in a non-cooperative regime of patent protection, we ask, Why … are patents longer in the North? We also study international patent agreements by deriving the properties of an efficient … global regime of patent protection and asking whether harmonization of patent policies is necessary or sufficient for global …

Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for … determinants of patent registration across a large sample of countries. Importantly, we disentangle the effects of corporate income … taxation from the tax advantage of patent boxes. We also exploit a new and original dataset on patent box features such as the …

This paper develops a model of patent trolls to understand various litigation strategies employed by nonpracticing …

In this paper we develop a theory of patenting in which a firm preserves its reputation to only apply for a patent …. In particular, we analyze the merits of different patent systems. …

This paper analyzes patent pools and their effects on innovation incentives. It is shown that the pro …-competitive effects of patent pools for complementary patents naturally extend for dynamic innovation incentives. However, this simple … case, the licensing fees reflect the strength of patents. Patent pools of complementary patents can be used to discourage …

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only "false innovators" have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, "true innovators" are forced to patent more intensively … distortions caused by bad patents. Moreover, we show that introducing a two-tiered patent system is unlikely to improve market …

. 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 …