disclosure, as are those with lower quality patents. We empirically examine patent disclosures made to seven large SSOs, and find …

bodies and private firms. One little-explored empirical testing ground is the patent system. This paper examines the … administrative practices of patent offices in sixty countries over a 150-year period. I show that the usage of patent renewal fees … economies, and those where international trade is more important-incorporate discretionary features into their patent systems …

are those with lower quality patents. We empirically examine patent disclosures made to seven large SSOs, and find results …

The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the … the past two decades studying the patent system, show how legal changes initiated in the 1980s converted the system from a … vignette, Jaffe and Lerner cite a patent litigation campaign brought by a a semi-conductor chip designer that claims control of …

are those with lower quality patents. We empirically examine patent disclosures made to seven large SSOs, and find results …

A number of methods exist for valuing a patent in order to license it to an external party. Several of these methods …, appears poised to easily accommodate software patent valuation in the face of open source software. Open source software …, provide software as part of a service bundle, not as an individually priced product. The problem of linking a patent to a …

academic researchers to the broader policy community. Volume 6 considers such topics as the diversity of patent protection and … the implications of weak patents for innovation and competition; reforms in U.S. patent policy that will encourage …

use in corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and … industry composition of innovative firms, biases may be introduced. We highlight several patent-level biases induced by … truncation of reported patent awards and citations, affecting estimates of time trends and patterns across technology classes and …