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 …

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 …

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 …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … functioning of the contemporary patent system. We find that patenting firms are being less confronted with imitation. The effect … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …

in the patent doctrine of contributory infringement. Previous scholars have explored the potential for intellectual …

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 …

Competition between firms to invent and patent an idea, or “patent racing,” has been much discussed in theory, but … seldom analyzed empirically. This article introduces an empirical way to identify patent races, and provides the first broad …-based view of them in the real world. It reveals that patent races are common, particularly in information-technology fields. The …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … functioning of the contemporary patent system. We find that patenting firms are being less confronted with imitation. The effect … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …