This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by … the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent quality. Further, the overly heavy focus on just a few types of … quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better …

growth, lower exit rates, and lower rates of patent expiry. To better understand these trends, I construct a model of firm … sequentiality in the industry. Estimating the model using data on US firms and recent data on US patent transfers, I can account for …, which amounts to 2.5% in consumption equivalent terms, can be partially remedied using a patent policy featuring weaker …

This study’s statistical analysis shows that patent quality and innovation in China deserve improvement, and an in …-depth legal, management science, and economic analysis in the study shows that various patent-related policies and practices … actually hamper patent quality and innovation in China. Over 50 recommendations for reform are provided. The study is divided …

The paper investigates whether patent fees are an effective mechanism to deter the filing of low-quality patent … applications. The study analyses the effect of the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1982, which resulted in a substantial increase in … patenting fees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, on patent quality. Results from a series of difference …

technology markets and increased rents for small inventors. Is this also true for today’s NPEs? Or are they “patent trolls” who … opportunistically litigate over software patents with unpredictable boundaries? Using stock market event studies around patent lawsuit …

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is twofold. First, we show how the patent … policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …

policy at Columbia University that has created an incentive to patent at the engineering school. We also find out that the … probability and propensity to patent is influenced by the scientific production of a researcher, his contacts with industry but …