of the developing world introduces patent protection for new drug products. This may lead to more research on drugs to … those already offering such protection the situation offers a unique opportunity to examine the incentive role of patent … provides a baseline' against which future research activity can be compared once the new global patent regime is fully …

motives to patent indicate that firms patent for reasons that often extend beyond directly profiting from a patented … innovation through either its commercialization or licensing. In addition to the prevention of copying, the most prominent … motives for patenting include the prevention of rivals from patenting related inventions (i.e., patent blocking'), the use of …

financing of software companies. Start-up software companies operating in markets characterized by denser patent thickets see … patents are less likely to go public if they operate in a market characterized by patent thickets …

;qualityquot;-weighted patents issued by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). We find that Tobin's q is … positively and significantly associated with Ramp;D and patent stocks, but that only those patents taken out in both patent … citations, family size and the number of technical fields covered by the patent are modestly informative for value. Software …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between patenting, innovation, and federal antitrust … patent histories and R&D expenditures, after controlling for other firm-specific variables including size and likelihood of …

discuss the implications of the risks we analyze for the total volume of medical innovation and for its organization across …

) and patent-paper pairs providing insights into the determinants of the disclosure strategy of a firm. We find that patents …

'innovation markets' are likely to lead to error. Applying standard antitrust doctrines such as tying and exclusivity to R … relationships between innovation and industry behavior. One important form of competition, especially in certain network industries …