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Information technology (IT) matters to prosperity. The top patenters are increasingly IT companies. We use data on US patents to document four trends in IT patenting. First, firm-level concentration in IT patenting is increasing over time. Second, geographic concentration in IT patenting is...
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, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about the current use of patents around the world. I … followed by a review of recent work by myself and co-authors on regional patent systems, the impact of patents on firm …
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spillovers to these patents, we rely on three proxies: patent citations to other patents, patent citations to the scientific … literature, and a novel text analysis to identify and track new ideas in the patent text. We find that more than half of …
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recycled from one patent to the next. That said, in-text citations have been overshadowed by front-page in the past few decades …, dropping from 80% of all paper-to-patent citations to less than 40%. In replicating two published articles that use only … relationship between academic science and commercial invention. All patent-to-article citations, as well as the known-good test set …
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pattern in green patent production. Specifically, we find that oil, gas, and energy producing firms - firms with lower … key innovators in the United States' green patent landscape. These energy producers produce more, and significantly higher …
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analysis of our testable predictions using pharmaceutical data concerning patents, patent expiration, and outsourcing at …
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This paper examines intellectual property litigation as a method of protection from patent-infringing imports. Claims … against patent-infringing imports entering the United States may be filed before the International Trade Commission (ITC) or …
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Patenting in software, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence has grown rapidly in recent years. Such patents are acquired primarily by large US technology firms such as IBM, Microsoft, Google, and HP, as well as by Japanese multinationals such as Sony, Canon, and Fujitsu. Chinese...
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We propose a method for bounding the demand elasticity in growing, homogeneous-product markets that requires only minimal data--market price and quantity over a time span as short as two periods. Reminiscent of revealed-preference arguments using choices over time to bound the shape of...
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We examine how the U.S. Federal Government governs R&D contracts with private-sector firms. The government chooses between two contractual forms: grants and cooperative agreements. The latter provides the government substantially greater discretion over, and monitoring of, project progress....
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