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Optimal Patent Strength under Financial Constraints
Kiedaisch, Christian - 2014
This paper analyzes how the optimal strength of patents on basic inventions is affected by financial constraints on the … and discourage the developer from exerting costly effort. Because of this, the distortions arising from patents on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069914
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Bargaining failure and freedom to operate: Re-evaluating the effect of patents on cumulative innovation
Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the patent universe in its technological and economic variety. We introduce a novel instrumental variable for patent invalidation that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290351
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Commercialization, Renewal and Quality of Patents
Svensson, Roger - 2011
One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and … purpose here is to empirically analyze the relationship between commercialization and the renewal of patents. At the same time … detailed database of Swedish patents, I utilize a survival model to estimate how commercialization influences the patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320247
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Patents, data exclusivity, and the development of new drugs
Gaessler, Fabian; Wagner, Stefan - 2019
invention (through patents) and the clinical trials data submitted for market approval (through data exclusivity). Patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141882
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The strategic use of fuzziness in patent specifications
Zaby, Alexandra; Heger, Diana - 2013
Innovators seek to protect their intellectual assets by patenting them, at the same time trying to avoid any disclosure of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so that anybody "skilled in the art" is enabled to reproduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771844
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Commercialization, renewal and quality of patents
Svensson, Roger - 2011
One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and … purpose here is to empirically analyze the relationship between commercialization and the renewal of patents. At the same time … detailed database of Swedish patents, I utilize a survival model to estimate how commercialization influences the patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936227
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Spreading the Word : Geography, Policy and University Knowledge Diffusion
Belenzon, Sharon - 2012
Using new data on citations to university patents and scientific publications, and measures of distance based on Google … maps, we study how geography affects university knowledge diffusion. We show that knowledge flows from patents are … is larger for patents from public, as compared to private, universities and this is partly explained by the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115449
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Patent Thickets and the Market for Innovation : Evidence from Settlement of Patent Disputes
Galasso, Alberto - 2012
-2000. Finally, we analyze how fragmentation affects total settlement delay, taking into account both reduction in duration per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117066
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Statistical Patent Analysis Indicators as a Means of Determining Country Technological Specialisation
Khramova, Ekaterina - 2013
Patent data provide a rich set of information which can be used for comparative studies and trend analysis. The paper presents a systematic overview of the most appropriate tools methodologies that are available for determining the technological specialization of countries. Such analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083545
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The Role of Early Career Factors in Academic Patenting
Lawson, Cornelia - 2013
This paper explores the characteristics of persistent academic inventors and how they are influenced by their personal attributes, PhD institution, and first invention. Using a novel dataset on 555 UK academic inventors, we find that the quality of the first invention is the best predictor for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086498