Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In "Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue …

State Street, the Federal Circuit case that had upheld business method patents, but could muster only four votes for the … proposition that business methods are in fact unpatentable. But even though the Court upheld business method patents, it … preventing the same set of problems from recurring, this Article uses recent empirical studies on gene patents to tease out …

In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so …

from one technological domain to another. This study uses U.S. patents granted from 1976-2006 to identify the role of … knowledge acquired from outside each patent’s technological domain. Our results do not seem to support the claim above …

as owners of real estate because patents were "property." Thus, by definition, patentees enjoyed the same rights as those … interest. Second, patents are now defined as securing only a right to exclude, and this has unhinged patent conveyance …

. Exploiting staggered reforms of state non-compete enforcement, I find that patents filed after an increased enforceability are … bargaining position, and having greater incentives to switch firms produce patents experiencing greater value losses. These …