innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in … patent.” This regime would allow inventors to obtain patents on research inputs and extract their full value through … licensing and enforcement. Research patents would impose minimal administrative costs on the patent system and ultimately …

attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …

attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …

This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …

gene patents will impede the implementation of next-generation genetic technologies, particularly personal whole genome … implications of Jensen and Murray’s findings, I analyzed the claims from a random sampling of 533 of the 4270 patents identified in … their article as “gene patents.” I found that, under any reasonable interpretation, 140 of the 533 patents would not be …

innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to …

becomes possible? History reveals that the Patent Office and the courts will continue to deny patents for a long time …

patents is more widespread among technology startups than has been previously reported, but that the patterns and drivers of … holding patents are industry and context specific. Surprisingly, startup executives report in general that patents are … factors. We also find substantial differences in the roles played by patents for startups in the biotechnology and medical …

university patents did not happen at the expense of their quality, nor of the quality of research. Moreover, scientific …