survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … lower than the social plannerś benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a "non-infringing inventive … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

To study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening, we develop an integrative framework incorporating … four main policy instruments: patent office examination, pre- and post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show …. Simulations of the model, calibrated on U.S. patent and litigation data, indicate that patenting is socially excessive and the …

the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …In this paper, I empirically study the effect of IEEE’s IPR policy change in 2015 on standard related innovation. I … construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment …

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by … the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent quality. Further, the overly heavy focus on just a few types of … quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least … partially meant to stimulate patents and "indigenous innovation." However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … innovation …

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 …

in where environmental law has failed to efficiently provide greater incentives for environmental innovation. A patent … not face efficient incentives for environmental innovation - a market failure that patent rewards can ameliorate. Along …Despite numerous and diverse efforts, environmental law generally fails to promote technological innovation with …

in patent policy have harmed the American innovation system …The 2006 Supreme Court ruling in eBay vs. MercExchange marked a sea change in U.S. patent policy. The eBay decision … removed the presumption of injunctive relief. Subsequent legal and policy changes reduced the costs of challenging patent …