We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act … (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more … facilitate a firm's innovation. However, we also highlight that mandatory patent disclosures can impose proprietary costs on …

This paper examines the effect of mandatory pre-grant patent publications on the innovation of venture capital (VC … relative improvements in innovation outputs for companies whose pre-AIPA patent applications received more "revise and resubmit … thus suggest that pre-grant patent publications generate larger benefits when they can more effectively reduce such …