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 …

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 … to age, some of which are consistent with cognitive aging theory. For solo inventors, backward citations and originality …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the probability that a firm in the manufacturing and service sectors applies for a patent during 2005-2009, but no … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …