result by discriminating against foreigners in the patent system by refusing to grant foreigners a patent for their … inventions. International patent law treaties forbid this practice, which may lower the global innovation incentives and may hurt … international trade. Using data on half a million inventions submitted to the Chinese patent office, we find robust evidence of anti …

This paper re-visits the empirical failure to establish a clear link between R&D efforts and patent counts at the … industry level. It is claimed that the 'propensity-to-patent' concept should be split into an 'appropriability propensity' and … countries over 19 years. The results confirm that the R&D-patent relationship is affected by research productivity …

patent-based measure of Europe's innovation performance. It also identifies several policies that may affect the R&D-patent …

relies on patent data to explore three potential sources: R&D collaboration, technology sourcing, and technology transfer …

Patent offices around the world face massive backlogs of applications, which threatens to slow down the pace of … technological progress. However, economists lack analytical tools to tackle the issue. This paper provides a model of patent … of patent pendency. They can accelerate or slow down the duration of pendency by adapting their filing strategy. We use …

The patent system is a central tool in innovation policy. The prospect of monopolistic pricing conferred by patent … markups for patent-protected products. Using an original dataset that links a broad range of consumer products to the patents … that protect them, we study the impact of patent protection on product prices. The empirical strategy exploits exogenous …

This paper tackles one of the most persistent criticism of patent statistics. Because not all inventions are patented …, the patent-to-R&D ratio reflects both a productivity effect (the number of inventions created per unit of research input … methodology uses information on the density of patent value and leads to results that are easy to interpret. It is applied to a …

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 … alter the patentability standards and whether a differentiated patent system that treats AI-generated inventions differently …

inventors listed in patent applications. Using machine learning techniques to identify inventors across patents uniquely, we are …

Low-quality patents are of considerable concern to businesses operating in patent-dense markets. There are two pathways … by which low-quality patents may be issued: the patent office may apply systematically a standard that is too lenient … (low inventive step threshold); or the patent office may grant patents that are, in fact, below its own threshold (so …