Based on the patent data from China National Intellectual Property Administration, we attempt to examine the effect of … gender diversity in inventor teams on patent quality. We argue that gender diversity in inventor teams can promote patent … quality, especially the invention patents that are high quality and radically innovative. Moreover, we find that the positive …

A low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are … supported by estimates from litigation studies suggesting that the majority of patents granted by the U.S. patent office should … not have been issued. This paper proposes a new Bayesian method for measuring patent quality, based on twin patent …

A low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are … supported by estimates from litigation studies suggesting that the majority of patents granted by the U.S. patent office should … not have been issued. This paper proposes a new Bayesian method for measuring patent quality, based on twin patent …