A recent study by professors found that women represent only one-third of the top pharmaceutical patent litigators and … pharmaceutical patent field is surprising because women represent the majority of law school students who have natural sciences … pharmaceutical patent prosecution and litigation …

-the-company litigation. Women lawyers, however, are noticeably absent from pharmaceutical patent practice. This article reports an original …, empirical study finding that women comprise only one-third of the top pharmaceutical patent litigators and only one-quarter of … technical fields essential to patent practice. But our study finds little support for that theory. To the contrary, more women …

We analyze the gender gap in the success of patent application at the USPTO. We leverage quasi-exogeneous variation … from the random assignment of patent examiners within technology fields, allowing us to find the causal impact of examiner … patent approval. This gender gap does not seem to be impacted by the gender of the examiner of the application. When we focus …

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 …