This paper utilizes a data set of over 208,000 U.S. patents applied for between 1975 and 2010 to study development of … towards the strategic use of patents. But the development of patenting strategies continued even after 2000 with semiconductor … companies preferred the production of valuable patents, but patenting strategies can differ vastly even among companies …

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In "Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue …

contributory infringement impact employee mobility out of firms holding patents. We anticipate that contributory infringement …

&D investments in the case of Cournot competition with no patents are higher than in the case of research cartel formed by the …

(IPR) protection before patents could be granted to their valuable knowledge assets. This problem is exacerbated, as firms …-intensive genomics industry based on all genomics patents and matching papers from 1988 to 2005. We find that under uncertain IPR …