fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …It may be advantageous to provide a variety of kinds of patent protection to heterogenous innovations. Innovations … protection in order to be encouraged. We model the problem of designing an optimal patent menu (scope and length) when the …

product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding …, that patent protection can complement competition in inducing innovation …Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this …

United States, including Israel, have emerged as important centers of innovation. Using data from U.S. PTO patent grants in …A large and growing literature has used patent and patent citation data to measure knowledge spillovers across …

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …

Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their …: (i) firm-level balance sheet data; (ii) social security data on the universe of workers; (iii) patent data from the … European Patent Office; (iv) the national registry of local politicians; and (v) detailed data on local elections in Italy. We …

For over a century, courts and commentators have struggled to find principles that reconcile patent and antitrust law …, especially as to patent licensing. We interpret case law and commentary to arrive at three unifying principles for acceptable … terms of license. Profit neutrality' holds that patent rewards should not depend on the rightholder's ability to work the …

We consider the differential incentives of the North and the South to provide patent protection to innovating firms in … development of technologies most suited to their needs. This provides a motive for the South to provide patent protection even … global planner will set equal rates of patent protection only when it weights the welfare of the two regions equally. We find …

are those with lower quality patents. We empirically examine patent disclosures made to seven large SSOs, and find results …

The use of "pay-for-delay" settlements in patent litigation - in which a branded manufacturer and generic entrant … settle a Paragraph IV patent challenge and agree to forestall entry - has come under considerable scrutiny in recent years … should have expired, while proponents argue they reinforce incentives for innovation. We estimate the impact of settlements …