performance of downstream R&D. Using both the RIETI inventor survey in Japan and the bibliographic information of triadic patents … of the patents citing standard documents has been increasing. The citation information in US patent documents can be … knowledge flow. The R&D projects intensively using standard information tend to generate valuable patents and also a large …

innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in … patent.” This regime would allow inventors to obtain patents on research inputs and extract their full value through … licensing and enforcement. Research patents would impose minimal administrative costs on the patent system and ultimately …

are less likely tobe approved by the FDA, they are based on patents with higher indicators of value. Consistentwith a …

accumulation of patents as weapons in legal arms races amongst productive firms …

research project has been affected (to some degree) by the presence of third-party patents. We test for the relative effects of …

It has been commonly argued that the decision of a large number of inventors to license complementary patents necessary …