Designing around patents is prevalent but not often appreciated as a means by which patents promote economic … claims. We study the filing rate of incandescent lamp-related patents during 1878-1898 and find that the enforcement of … the lamps described in these lamp patents and compared them to Edison’s claimed invention to create a count of non …

possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora … is important for the successful commercialization of patents by using a detailed patent database. The database contains … inventors and external firms are often crucial for the successful commercialization of patents. …

Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … of patentees, by observing the entire population of British patents granted up to the patent reforms of 1852. I find …

holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U ….S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data account for a large fraction of the cumulative value over all observations …

holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U ….S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data account for a large fraction of the cumulative value over all observations …

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm's U.S. inventors and cross …

about the validity of this measure. This paper links patents with objective measures of improvements in the quality of … influence citations. Patent attorneys cite early patents, which help establish the patentability of an invention; this practice … may inflate citation counts for early patents, particularly for inventions that have only recently become patentable …