increase in patent applications and grants implies the country's weak technological progress, low quality of scientists and …

Although China became the world's leading patent filer in 2011, patent quality is still a serious issue in the country …. This article first provides a statistical snapshot of this situation and then discusses how China's network of patent … the negative consequences of poor patent quality, paying special attention to the impacts on foreign companies in China. …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

In a model of sequential patent races, it is examined whether or not introducing a patent law in the home country is … beneficial to the firms and the society as a whole given the foreign country already offers patent protection. Before the first … patent race starts, the firms and the foreign country share interests. For a given total number of firms, the welfare effect …

This paper investigates the effects of outsourcing of prior art search on the efficiency of patent examination, using a … large scale Japanese patent examination data. Outsourcing may increase examination quality by expanding the scope of prior …

This paper investigates whether patent subsidy programs aimed at promoting regional innovations have aroused a large … number of low-quality applications in China and created biased patent statistics as an indicator for innovations. We found … that patent filing fee subsidies encouraged filing of low-quality patent, resulting in a decreased grant rate. Though …

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 …

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 …