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Competition, Innovation and Racing for Priority at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Cohen, Linda R.; Ishii, Jun - 2013
then use the data to consider some key issues in dynamic competition and innovation. We look at the incidence and … distribution of patent races by technology, evidence for strategic delay of innovation by incumbent firms, and evidence that patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061822
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The scientific output of a database on commercialized patents
Svensson, Roger - 2020
innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259861
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Crafting Intellectual Property Rights : Implications for Patent Assertion Entities, Litigation, and Innovation
Feng, Josh - 2020
We show that examiner-driven variation in patent rights leads to quantitatively large impacts on several patent outcomes, including patent value, citations, and litigation. Notably, Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) overwhelmingly purchase patents granted by "lenient" examiners. These examiners...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855159
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Patent Screening, Innovation, and Welfare
Schankerman, Mark; Schuett, Florian - 2021
Critics claim that patent screening is ineffective, granting low-quality patents that impose unnecessary social costs. We develop an integrated framework, involving patent office examination, fees, and endogenous validity challenges in the courts, to study patent screening both theoretically and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226280
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Bargaining failure and freedom to operate : re-evaluating the effect of patents on cumulative innovation
Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139072
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Bargaining Failure and Freedom to Operate : Re-Evaluating the Effect of Patents on Cumulative Innovation
Gaessler, Fabian - 2019
We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863982
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Patent Enforcement and Subsequent Innovation
Giebel, Marek - 2022
How does patent enforcement affect subsequent innovation? I exploit patent infringement litigation in the United States … to analyze the effect of patent enforcement on cumulative innovation. The results imply that subsequent innovation … patent and reductions in asymmetric information are particular driver of the increase in follow-on innovation. Although there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309108
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Abstract Patents and Innovation : Evidence from Alice v. CLS Bank
Feng, Josh; Williams, Peyton - 2023
before Alice. Overall, Alice reduced inefficiencies in the system without reducing innovation incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350603
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Conflict resolution, public goods and patent thickets
Harhoff, Dietmar; von Graevenitz, Georg; Wagner, Stefan - 2013
Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352087
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Patent litigation settlement in Germany: Why parties settle during trial
Cremers, Katrin; Schliessler, Paula - 2012
This paper looks at the decision to settle patent litigation in Germany from a new angle by focusing on detailed data on within-trial actions and motivations by plain-tiff, defendant and the courts. Using a new dataset covering about 80% of all patent litigation cases in Germany between 2000 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310989