This paper takes as its unit of analysis the disclosure of an invention by an academic scientist to the university … technologies for sale. The analyses also show that patent grants significantly increase the rate at which technologies are licensed … patent grants suggests that patents may affect both the quality inferences of licensing firms and the incentives of inventors …

Although the use of patent indicators in statistics has been under discussion for a long time, there are surprisingly … very few studies devoted to explaining the use of patent indicators as performance indicators in performance-based research … performance indicators. However, there is still no established distinction in the literature between patent indicators used in …

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …. -- heterogeneous inventions ; innovation size ; intellectual property rights ; patents ; patent filing fees ; patentability standards …

In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so … by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor’s Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA) — which required US patent applications … to be published 18 months after their filing date rather than at patent grant — on the timing of licensing deals in the …

-expression dichotomy in copyright law, to the exclusion of abstract ideas in patent law, and to the protection of ideas as trade secrets … (non)protectability of ideas in a clearer or more direct way (mostly in patent law) …

emphasized strict construction of the Patent Act, but acknowledged three judge made exceptions to patentability. It disapproved … invalidated all of Bilski's hedging claims. And while the Justices agreed on one thing - a patent that “preempts” something (a …

The doctrine of equivalents (DOE) allows courts to expand the scope of patent rights granted by the Patent Office. The … justification holds that certain frictions block patent applicants from literally claiming appropriately broad rights, and thus, the … DOE is available at trial to expand patent scope and overcome these frictions. The friction theory suffers from three main …

knowledge acquired from outside each patent’s technological domain. Our results do not seem to support the claim above …