We show that the acquisition of a startup inventor's first patent has a negative effect on the subsequent productivity … of the patent's inventor, leading to 6.7 fewer patents being granted to the inventor over five years. This effect is not … patent examiners ask them to cite, and examiners are more likely to cite patents that they have reviewed in the past. When …

Previous literature has attributed differences in individuals' inventive productivity to a range of environmental …, organizational and individual traits. However, the behavior of individuals with different inventive productivity has not been … paper analyses how serial and occasional inventors acted in patent initiation, patent application and subsequent patent …

suggest that the prospect of patent protection spurred technological progress and increased downstream productivity and …Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops … crop-specific technology development, I find that the introduction of patent rights increased the development of novel …