This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

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 …

called Patent Trolls. Activity of Patent Trolls companies can significantly contribute to inhibit the diffusion process in …. Today we may risk statement that over-regulation in the field of patent protection in conjunction with the unfair practices … of companies Patent Trolls may lead to stop the development of Knowledge Based Economy. The purpose of this article is to …

correlations of the patent value indicators with technological innovation are noisy, this study provides stronger empirical support …I provide empirical evidence that quality-adjusted patents can identify technological innovation in small and medium …-sized enterprises. Survey data on commercialization of patents is related to patent quality indicators (patent renewal, patent family …

The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains … at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new measure of litigiousness using patent opposition data. We find that the … degree of litigiousness and the density of patent thickets negatively affect the likelihood of firms entering new TDs. Across …

in spillover benefits which can provide dynamic efficiency gains to offset the static efficiency losses of the patent … required is, in Australia, a scintilla. This evolution in innovation policy seems never to have been evaluated – case law … decisions reducing the quantum of inventiveness required in Australia for grant of a standard patent. It commences with a short …

patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …

I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies …, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about the current use of patents around the world. I … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is …

This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding …, this essay introduces the organizing themes of the volume. Innovation is critical to economic growth. While it is well …