China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity … by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than … patent holders. Furthermore, the paper examines what drives patenting activity. Higher R&D spending by the firm and higher …

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 …

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by … the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent quality. Further, the overly heavy focus on just a few types of … quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

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 …

years this strategy has created negative impacts on patent quality and thus somewhat may have hampered innovation in China …. New Chinese intellectual property policies, and the 2014 phenomena of decreasing annual growth rates of domestic invention … patent filings and unprecedented negative growth rates of domestic utility model and design filings, shed new light on this …

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by … the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent quality. Further, the overly heavy focus on just a few types of … quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better …

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 …