computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent … disputes, and the fragmentation of patent rights (.patent thickets.) which increases the transaction costs of enforcement. We …

largely satisfied with today's patent system while the electronics, software and Internet industries are not. This article … inventive process for pharmaceuticals. Our patent system, however, has no analogous requirement for the other fields. In them … biotech industry may be closing the gap in early-stage patenting. This article suggests two ways to improve our patent system …

this study to gain insight into technological innovation in Canada through the lens of the United States (“U.S.”) patent … system. Comprehensive patent data of the sort required to make direct measurements of the Canadian patent system is not yet … available in a form that lends itself to direct analysis, in particular patent data and metadata available as bulk downloads. In …

A higher fragmentation of patent ownership following the recent U.S. pro-patent shifts has built overlapping property … rights or patent thickets for firms with cumulative innovations. This has made the use of other firms' innovations costlier … traded U.S. manufacturing firms from 1976 to 2002, I quantify costs of the fragmentation and find that patent thickets lower …

The patent system is usually described in terms of opposites, like producers versus trolls or software versus pharma …-five years of patent litigation by highly litigious non-practicing entities and randomly selected plaintiffs explores each of … one thousand patent outcomes in more than two thousand cases leads to some surprising findings. For example, while the …

patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic …

patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic …

The patent system gives the courts discretion to tailor patentability standards flexibly across technologies to provide … practical, non-research-based use at the time patent protection is sought. The fear is that an early-stage patent on a research … innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in …