earnings for a patent grant and for highly-cited patents a longer-lasting premium of 30% in earnings three years later. Similar … inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their … medium-term premia accrue to inventors who initially hold the patent rights, although they forego earnings at the time of the …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract …

This paper develops a methodology to compare the quality of examination services in different patent offices. Quality … is defined as the extent to which patent offices comply with their patentability conditions in a transparent way. The … of patent offices in Europe (EPO), Japan (JPO) and the US (USPTO) shows that their operational designs differ …

.g. patents, to protect their innovations, whereas small and medium-sized (SME), low-tech and weakly internationalized companies …

on the enjoyment of fundamental rights while granting injunctions on patents. This paper argues that the Indian courts … public interest aspect and human rights implications while granting injunctions in patent litigation. Moreover, it asserts … that the courts should exercise prudence in granting injunctive relief in cases involving patent infringement, and take …

look at the development that has taken place in other jurisdictions and adapt the patent law to local conditions when … appropriate to Sri Lanka is twofold. First, it is most likely to prevent the issuance of patents on trivial or incremental …

states, Prussia granted patents more restrictively by setting higher novelty requirements. Though, patent fees were much … patent-regime change on world-fair exhibits per capita, which we use as a proxy for non-patented innovation. We interpret …This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced …