China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing …. It also turns out that the perceived effectiveness of a patent depends on a firm's size, theinnovation type and … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …

This article investigates patent protection for a long sequence of innovations where firms repeatedly supersede each …

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, all countries having patent systems required patentable inventions to be … nonobvious. The nonobviousness requirement is considered to be so central to patent policy that it has frequently been called the …

This study was initiated in order to provide more factual insight into the recent debates on patent reforms in general … and more particularly, the practice of patent continuations in the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO … components of the flow of patent applications to the USPTO was carried out and insight into the ever-increasing propensity of …

modern patent law. But economic theory has moved on. Since the 1990s, legal scholars have repeatedly mined the discipline to … literature’s broader lessons for doctrine. This article asks how well today’s patent doctrine follows and occasionally departs …’s PHOSITA standard. The second principle holds that patent breadth should be chosen to balance the benefits of innovation …

confusing new framework for determining patent eligibility. The decision in Mayo v. Prometheus cast serious doubt on the … unclear whether adding computer limitations to an otherwise unpatentable concept somehow renders the concept patent eligible … approaches. Thus, there remains a pressing need to find a common analytical framework for deciding software patent eligibility …

report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Measuring Innovation in Canada: The Tale Told by Patent Applications,” authors …

framework in which every innovation builds on previous inventions the standard argument for granting patent protection is no …