Using application-level data from the Patent Office from 2001 to 2012, merged with personnel data on patent examiners …, we explore the extent to which the key decision of examiners—whether to allow a patent—is shaped by the granting styles … grant rate of her peer group, an examiner in her first two years at the Patent Office will experience a 0.15 standard …

, especially in the workplace. In this paper, we attempt to fill these gaps by exploring procrastination among U.S. patent … take advantage of the natural experiment afforded by the Patent Office's staggered implementation of its telecommuting … literature over the efficiency of the patent examination process, we assess the consequences of procrastination for the quality …

patent citations to compare the social value of alternative energy research to other types of R&D that may be crowded out … climate R&D in two sectors - alternative energy and automotive manufacturing. Linking patent data and financial data by firm … patent citation data to compare the social value of alternative energy patents to other patents by these firms. Alternative …

, droughts and flooding on the innovation of their respective mitigation technologies. Using patent and disaster data, our study …

We explore how examiner behavior is altered by the time allocated for reviewing patent applications. Insufficient …

semiparametric fixed-effects Tobit model, we regress patent counts on a series of policy variables within a state and a spatially …

empirical study of patent citation data, this paper adds to the literature on returns to energy R&D by focusing on the behavior …

have used patent data to examine the links between environmental policy and technological change. In addition, I have used …

This paper uses patent citation data to study flows of knowledge across time and across institutions in the field of … of the accumulated knowledge available to inventors. Patent citations are used to represent this quality. This paper …

I use U.S. patent data from 1970 to 1994 to estimate the effect of energy prices on energy-efficient innovations. Using … patent citations to construct a measure of the usefulness of the existing base of scientific knowledge, I consider the effect …