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. …

The strengthening of the U.S. patent regime in the early eighties was followed by a sharp increase in patenting and a … rather small increase in the in Ramp;D expenditure in some industries in the U.S. This patent paradox is prominently observed … number of ideas to successfully develop a final product. In this paper I examine the effects of a change in the patent regime …

We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the … patent universe in its technological and economic variety. We introduce a novel instrumental variable for patent invalidation … that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office. We find that patent invalidation …

The role of the patent system in the pharmaceutical sector is highly debated also due to its strong public health … different configurations of the patent system upon innovation and competition. The model is able to replicate the main stylized …

, alternative patent: the inclusive patent. The inclusive patent is perceived as a one-sided right geared to include rather than to …. The inclusive patent is further conceived as a registration patent obtainable at low cost. The inclusive patent regime may … be developed as a semi-codified regime where the inclusive patent entitlement is provided by law and the open source …

We empirically examine the determinants of the price of patent licensing. We find factors affecting the profitability … of patents and bargaining power of licensors and licensees are good predictors of the royalty rate of patent licensing …

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

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively … distortions caused by bad patents. Moreover, we show that introducing a two-tiered patent system is unlikely to improve market …