mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …. Using a binary size measure, we find strong support for the traditional view that firms patent their most important …

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 … adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German …

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now in … most industries for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught with … cost and risk. Nonetheless standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by …

- Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB)) and international (IAS and US-GAAP) accounting information, as well as European patent data to explain the …

Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes … made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms … benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are caught up in patent thickets. Using data on opposition against patents …

stakeholders. Patent holdup and holdout directly impacts the innovation and dissemination of patented technology, the harmonization … the extent and impact of patent holdup and holdout in the ICT sector, and then about how to eliminate or reduce these … made great efforts to solve the issue of patent holdup and holdout, there is still an ongoing struggle among divergent …

then, the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and … between IP, innovation, access, and public health between stakeholders with divergent interests. This working paper provides … an overview of the patent landscape of medical treatments and technologies related to COVID-19, and of the patent status …

This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten … based on VaxPaL, a COVID-19 vaccines patent database developed by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Through the detailed … examination of patent applicants, filing dates, and offices of first and subsequent filing, the paper identifies patterns and …

Patent studies inform our understanding of innovation. Any study of patenting involves classifying patent data …, making them diffcult to replicate. Because of this, we develop a new patent taxonomy using machine learning techniques, and … propose a new methodology to automate patent classification. We contrast existing taxonomies with our own upon a widely used …