innovation literature. Using an NPE-derived dataset with patent-specific revenues we find that the relationship of citations to …

patent data with information on inventor ages scraped from directory websites on the web for approximately 1.2 million U …

. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from …-style patent systems with all their imperfections have come to dominate other methods of encouraging inventive activity. The essays …

the mechanism is secured creditors exercising their control rights on collateralized patents. Creditor-driven patent sales … are more likely to be purchased by patent trolls …

address concerns that these results are an artifact of our use of patent counts by demonstrating similar patterns when other …

indicators of technology shocks: R+D spending and patent applications. Using annual panel data on 19 US manufacturing industries … from 1959 -1991, I find that favorable R+D or patent shocks tend to increase inputs, especially labor, in the short run …

other citations; (2) patents in the same patent class are approximately 100 times as likely to cite each other as patents … from different patent classes there is not a strong time pattern to this effect; (3) patents whose inventors reside in the …

In 1839, the French government purchased the patent on the Daguerreotype process and" placed it in the public domain … patent buy-outs could eliminate monopoly" price distortions and incentives for wasteful reverse engineering, while raising … private incentives" for original research closer to their social value. However, patent buy-outs are potentially" vulnerable …