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 …

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 …

this heterogeneous quality distribution. A pertinent question then arises: How should we define and measure patent quality …? Accepting that different stakeholders have different views of this concept, we take a multi-dimensional view of patent quality … in this work. We first test the consistency of popular post-grant outcomes that are often used as patent quality measures …

One source of uncertainty in the patent system relates to the difficulty in identifying products that are protected … with a patent. This paper studies the adoption by U.S. patentees of "virtual patent marking," namely the online provision … patent marking and empirically examines factors that affect adoption. Data suggest that about 12 percent of patent holders …

This paper analyses the role of patent-filing fees requested by the member states of the European Patent Convention … that the transfer rate of domestic priority filings to the European Patent Office (EPO) increases with the duration of … the EPO or at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to assess the innovative performance of countries …

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 proposes a substantive re-think of the modern patent system. The patent system has come under intensive … of administering them and the rigidity of the patent system. We explore how distributed ledger technologies enable these …

between the enforcement of a secrecy order and follow-on inventions, as captured with patent citations and text-based measures … inventions in the same technological field as the secreted patent …