innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family … commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological …

The role of individual inventors, small firms and entrepreneurs in the patent courts has become controversial for two … patents in cases filed in 2000 and 2002, we explore how the resolution of patent cases relates to the nature of the parties …. In particular, we examine whether individual inventors and entrepreneurs are ability to defend their patent rights and …

Most of the academic and policy attention in the past two decades has been focused on patent holdup theory that posits … opportunity for injunctive relief in the US. This study instead investigates the symmetrical theory of patent holdout whereby …, in contention with much larger incumbent market actors.The study finds that, because there are no patent police, the high …

commercialization of inventions. If the patent holder commercializes his invention, he has stronger incentives to retain the patent. The …, I take into account defensive patent strategies (e.g. deterring competitors from utilizing the patent) and pointedly ask … if there are any third factors (quality of the patent) that affect the commercialization and renewal decisions. Using a …

traded patents, we show that patent acquisitions respond to complementarities between the acquired patented innovation and …This article presents the results of an analysis of the patent trading flows of small and large firms and the … determinants of these firm’s patent sale and acquisition decisions. We also examine whether these transactions lead to an excessive …

commercialization of inventions. If the patent holder commercializes his invention, he has stronger incentives to retain the patent. The …, I take into account defensive patent strategies (e.g. deterring competitors from utilizing the patent) and pointedly ask … if there are any third factors (quality of the patent) that affect the commercialization and renewal decisions. Using a …