yield lower rates of innovation, lower product quality and lower consumers' welfare. -- Patents ; appropriability of …

Designing around patents is prevalent but not often appreciated as a means by which patents promote economic … claims. We study the filing rate of incandescent lamp-related patents during 1878-1898 and find that the enforcement of … the lamps described in these lamp patents and compared them to Edison’s claimed invention to create a count of non …

Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repeatedly fail to … misbehavior, we can catch a glimpse of the social roles patents play when no one is watching. Drawing on insights from the … sociology of markets, I argue that patents are surreptitiously performing functions familiar from the grocery store, the …

understudied market for patents, widely believed to be illiquid and inefficient, with fundamental research about how markets …

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 …

patents; however, most patent databases contain no information on whether patents have been commercialized, i.e., whether … commercialization variables. For this purpose, I use a unique database on Swedish patents that includes information on whether patents …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …

The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we study whether the two instruments for protecting IP exhibit …) between the patents and trademarks owned by the same firm and we then investigate whether such concordance exert any effect on …