This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

-in-difference approach on an original dataset of patent-paper-pairs we are able to estimate the causal effect of the granting of a patent on … applicability of an innovation is further affects the relation. To address these issues we build a novel dataset matching patent … citing agent belongs to a public institution. In addition, the the more invention is applied, the weaker is the negative …

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity …, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be … by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than …

in patent grants is at least partly a result of the apparent decline in examination standards. There has been little … rigor of the examination process, amongst other things and patent grants depend on the number and quality of applications … addition countries whose patent applications are more likely to be successful in the U.S. are more likely to be successful in …

determining patentable subject matter under the American Patent Act, is used as a starting point for a brief review of historical …, philosophical, and cultural influences on subject matter questions in both patent and copyright law. The article suggests that … patent and copyright law jurisprudence was constructed initially by the Court with explicit attention to the relationship …

creation of lesser estates or restrictive covenants for real property. In sum, early American courts incorporated into patent … concepts of "assignments" and "licenses." Given widespread confusion today concerning patent conveyance doctrines, this chapter … economic parlance), but patent theorists today can draw at least two important lessons from it. First, it reveals how …

protecting an asset from the claims of creditors. The court held that in order to be patentable, an invention must disclose a … physically-observable effect and accordingly ordered that the patent be revoked …

We analyze optimal patent design when innovators can rely on secrecy to protect their innovations. Secrecy provides a … the optimal policy is to induce the first innovator to patent. Furthermore, we derive the optimal scope of the rights … conferred to late innovators. We show that if the patent life can be suitably set, broad patent protection is optimal: late …

'invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal for use the RWP basis on my circa 25 years … 'Patentable Invention as the Legal Object in the Light of Systems Thinking Big (whole) Picture in Patent Laws' I have presented in …The present article is in principle the continuation of my one 'Legal Definition of the Term 'Invention' as the Primary …