Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … determinants of uses and nonuses of patented inventions from firms at the levels of technology, organization, and project/invention … based on a novel dataset constructed from multiple sources: inventor surveys, the United States Patent and Trademark Office …

Innovation comprises the processes of invention and commercialization. While the importance of innovation, especially … determinants of uses and nonuses of patented inventions from firms at the levels of technology, organization, and project/invention … based on a novel dataset constructed from multiple sources: inventor surveys, the United States Patent and Trademark Office …

, and limiting the role of foreign inventors. However, the role of the extension of patent life in the early 1990s has … enforcement can encourage innovation. Limiting foreign invention could encourage more local patenting but might limit Chinese …

the enactment of the first nationwide German patent law in 1877 and 1932. This patent act enabled both, national and … invention. Much research is done on patents and their economic effects within national borders at macro and micro levels. But … the cross-border importance of patent protection for domestic and foreign inventors and economies is still …

uses patent renewal data. Employing Cox regression technique, we explore the question what factors (such as patent …’s technological class and patentee’s nationality) impact patent survival. The concluding part of this dissertation summarizes the main … results and points out tentative directions for further research using this patent data set. …

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is overburdened with a large volume of patent applications while … having limited resources to conduct patent examinations. The patent examination process is too long and the quality of issued … patent. In these prediction markets, traders buy and sell bets for the outcomes of patent examinations. Our proposed …

country level R&D and patent information, I present efficiency scores based on intertemporal frontier estimation for the … country level R&D and patent information, I present efficiency scores based on intertemporal frontier estimation for the …

industry manage uncertain andfrequently overlapping patent rights. In practice, patent rightsare highly imperfect legal … disputes.This has two consequences. First, firms facing low status ambiguityare less likely to be involved in patent litigation … than are firmsfacing high status ambiguity. Patent litigation events representfailures to resolve patent disputes out of …