concentration of patent ownership and patent thickets, and potentially unlimited inventions …This symposium article discusses issues raised for patent processes and policy created by inventions generated by … allowing patent protection for AI-generated inventions. Next, the Article examines how the emergence of AI inventions will …

This paper surveys the major changes in patent policy and practice that have occurred in the last two decades in the U … effects of changes in patent policy. Despite the significance of the policy changes and the wide availability of detailed data … patent policy are few. Possible reasons for these limited results are discussed, and possible avenues for future research are …

expenditures, and aggregate patent applications. This data set is to be used in a larger study of R&D, inventive output and … section of these firms. We find an elasticity of R&D with respect to sales of close to unity, with both very small and very …, with a decreasing propensity to patent with size of R&D programs throughout the sample. However, this conclusion is highly …

This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computational ….S. applications in three patent categories related to nanotechnology, batteries, and electricity from 2000 to 2019. Relying on the … for different source documents that patent attorneys can draw on, we confirm the relevance and usefulness of the …