Patent studies inform our understanding of innovation. Any study of patenting involves classifying patent data …, making them diffcult to replicate. Because of this, we develop a new patent taxonomy using machine learning techniques, and … propose a new methodology to automate patent classification. We contrast existing taxonomies with our own upon a widely used …

This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced … adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German … states, Prussia granted patents more restrictively by setting higher novelty requirements. Though, patent fees were much …

This paper discusses the controversies over the moral justification for patent protection in biotechnology. Special … emphasis has been put on the controversy over the moral justification for patent protection of stem cells. By referring to … arguments for (1) human dignity and (2) patentability criteria, the moral justifiability of patent protection of stem cells is …

This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced … adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German … states, Prussia granted patents more restrictively by setting higher novelty requirements. Though, patent fees were much …

Patent studies inform our understanding of innovation. Any study of patenting involves classifying patent data …, making them diffcult to replicate. Because of this, we develop a new patent taxonomy using machine learning techniques, and … propose a new methodology to automate patent classification. We contrast existing taxonomies with our own upon a widely used …

The specific characteristics of the R&D system of the modern molecular biotechnology lead to the fact that patent … of cultural and traditional conditions with view to the allocation and usage of property rights, an optimal patent system …

worth bearing when patent protection is required as an incentive to invention. The newly-invented good generates a residual … a patent is to concentrate the entire benefit of the patented good upon the rich, leaving the poor no better off than if …