previous measures of patent scope (i.e. the number of patent classes, the number of citations made by future patents, and the … then demonstrate the power of this instrument by examining standard-essential patents. We show that an (exogenous …) diminishment of patent scope leads to patents being much less likely to be declared standard-essential …

Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repeatedly fail to … misbehavior, we can catch a glimpse of the social roles patents play when no one is watching. Drawing on insights from the … sociology of markets, I argue that patents are surreptitiously performing functions familiar from the grocery store, the …

diffusion decreases both in technology imitation among innovators and in technology adoption by entrepreneurs. Patents are an …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …

European multinational corporations (MNCs) and employing the relative share of patents held by an MNC as a measure for patent … concentration shapes an MNC's incentives to shift income via patents. Our findings also indicate that the effectiveness of tax …

of patents has been largely ignored. Second, we explore how the general-equilibrium framework contributes to the results … depend on the proportion of industries that conduct R&D. Furthermore, patents affect the allocation of R&D resources across … industries, and patents can distort resources away from industries where they are most productive. -- innovation ; patent policy …