Australian patents. Its novelty is twofold. First, it relies on direct observation of the revenue streams of inventions. This is … identifying assumptions. Second, it presents estimates of the effect of patent protection on the depreciation rate. Results … suggest that the depreciation rate is in the 2–7 per cent range. Inventions for which a patent is granted are associated with …

use information about inventors from patents (name and location) and search for age and date of death information from … patents granted between 1976 and 2018. We also find the death dates of 206,589 inventors, though we are not as confident of …

patent data with information on inventor ages scraped from directory websites on the web for approximately 1.2 million U ….S.-resident inventors patenting between 1976 and 2017. Our results suggest that cross-sectional and within-inventor patenting rates are … similar, peaking at around the early 40s for both women and men. We find varying results for attributes of patents in relation …

other countries as well. These findings confirm that inventors respond to increased likelihood of success at the patent … in patent grants is at least partly a result of the apparent decline in examination standards. There has been little … rigor of the examination process, amongst other things and patent grants depend on the number and quality of applications …