in the context of the US government’s procurement of R&D. We link tender, contract, patent, and office records to the …&D contract to generate patents. We provide suggestive evidence that backlogged contracting officers are unable to devote enough …

-ups with experienced inventors holding a patent at the time of receiving the first round of investment produce the largest …

We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the … type of independent patent claims, we show an increase in the annual share of process claims of about 25 percentage points … (from below 10% in 1920). This rise in process intensity is not limited to a few patent classes but can be observed across a …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent … holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U ….S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data account for a large fraction of the cumulative value over all observations …

several sources - the royalties from U.S. university patent portfolios, the quasi-rents from marketed pharmaceutical entities …