We analyze the effect of patent thickets on entry into technology areas by firms in the UK. We present a model that … the potential for hold‐up in patent thickets. We show empirically that our measure of patent thickets is associated with a … evidence indicates that patent thickets raise entry costs, which leads to less entry into technologies regardless of a firm …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

result by discriminating against foreigners in the patent system by refusing to grant foreigners a patent for their … inventions. International patent law treaties forbid this practice, which may lower the global innovation incentives and may hurt … international trade. Using data on half a million inventions submitted to the Chinese patent office, we find robust evidence of anti …

of standard-setting organizations require patent holders to declare any patents as SEPs that might be essential, without …

development through competition. We provide a novel detailed empirical study of the extent and timing of designing around patent … Edison’s incandescent lamp patent in 1891-1894 stimulated a surge of patenting. We studied the specific design features of …-infringing designs by filing date. Most of these non-infringing designs circumvented Edison’s patent claims by creating substitute …

process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent … predecessors, the boundaries of patent eligibility dictated by the term “process” and the term “art” that it replaced, along with … acknowledged the existence of the many lower court tests for patent eligibility that have evolved and even encouraged development …

of patented inventions in a way that infringes a patent holder's exclusive rights.This article examines the obligations …

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 …

create substantial tensions for the patent system to assure low-cost access to patented technologies at the back end of … technology transfer needs. This article first describes the uncertain case for relying on the patent system, the tensions that … needs, and the measures that have been proposed to limit the effect of the patent system on development of and access to …

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, all countries having patent systems required patentable inventions to be … nonobvious. The nonobviousness requirement is considered to be so central to patent policy that it has frequently been called the …