discontinuously forced many firms to adopt or strengthen the financial incentives based on the commercial success of an invention. Our … citation-weighted patent counts at the inventor level and significantly decreased the number of science-based patents. These … results show that financial incentives based on the commercialization performance of an invention can be counter …

requested, and the year a patent right lapsed) correspond with those of invention-related behaviors in these firms (e.g., the … not necessarily support a correspondence between the timings of patent-related and invention-related behaviors. This …In this paper, we have used an original survey of patent utilization to empirically examine whether the timings of …

The employee invention scheme in Japan, which was initially modeled after the German system, was again revised in 2015 … changes into the perspective of events since the Patent Act came into effect some 50 years ago.Article 35 of the Patent Act of …