specific technological fields by means of patent citation data. It provides evidence for patent data in biotechnology. Recent …

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 …

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 …

creation of lesser estates or restrictive covenants for real property. In sum, early American courts incorporated into patent … concepts of "assignments" and "licenses." Given widespread confusion today concerning patent conveyance doctrines, this chapter … economic parlance), but patent theorists today can draw at least two important lessons from it. First, it reveals how …

prizes is flawed. I show how prices in the market for inventions provide state-contingent signals that guide invention … indicators of technological change. I conclude that replacing market prices with government prizes would harm invention …

, disclosure, certification, standardization, and divisibility. Second, patents provide efficient incentives for invention …, patents as intangible real assets promote the financing of invention and innovation. The market foundation role of patents …

past innovations. With full patent protection, followers can catch up to the leader in their industry either by making the … simple form of licensing. Second, we show that full patent protection is not optimal from the viewpoint of maximizing the …

competitors. The paper examines the capacity for decentralised patent-based incentive mechanisms to result in socially optimal … incompatibility between the dynamics of the patent system and the dynamics of the resistance problem under both types of evolution …. Under scale-dependent evolution, the externalities within a patent-based system indicate that decentralised mechanisms will …

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 …

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