China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

likelihood of patent renewal. Since the owners know more about the patents than potential external financiers, there is a problem …

to obtain patent rights in hopes that the patent incentive will foster commercialization, as well as generate revenues to … patent and licensing practices. Specific suggestions to modify the currently proposed regulations are provided …

century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents …) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization ("license" patents). The data include a large number of "license …" patents that cannot be linked to government funding from patent text or other sources. Combining the historical data with …

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 ….S. patent system more equitable, particularly for sectors such as information technology, where patent ownership is fragmented …

both governments to the issue of regulatory delay eroding some period of patent protection. Second, the paper considers the … impact of the principle of free movement of goods within the European Union on the incentive structure of the patent system … could be pursued without undercutting the effective operation of the patent system. The paper suggests that such a …

This Article explores the practical consequences of an important shift that has recently taken place in patent theory … justify the patent system based on its role in facilitating information exchange and enabling technical coordination among … intense attention at the level of theory, little has been said about the consequences of this debate for patent policy itself …

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 …

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 …