The patent system gives the courts discretion to tailor patentability standards flexibly across technologies to provide … practical, non-research-based use at the time patent protection is sought. The fear is that an early-stage patent on a research … innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances 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 …

theoretically that the risk of a scientist's departure raises the firm's propensity to patent an innovation and reduces its research … partly explains cross-industry patenting variation, recent increases in patenting, and why small firms have high patent …

postdoctoral scholars contribute equally to patent activity or whether there is a differential effect depending upon visa status …. We find patent counts relate positively and significantly to the number of faculty, number of PhD students and number of …

Can weakening patent protection incentivize innovation? I investigate the effects of weakened patent protection on … positively to weakened patent protection. Going further, I compare the impact of the Supreme Court decision on R&D investment and … patent applications across the cross section of differentially exposed firms to further support my hypothesis. My estimates …

The economic rents associated with patent portfolios are highly skewed with only a small portion having value. This … leads researchers and industry to ask what early strategic patenting decisions around the patent itself will impact the … future value of the patent, specifically within the context of small firms. To address this question the paper modeled these …

This paper analyzes the relationship between technology licensing and the effectiveness of patent protection. Using the … the patenting and licensing decisions are jointly determined. We find that increases in the effectiveness of patent … unimportant. In contrast, for firms better positioned to bring new technologies to market, increases in patent effectiveness …

The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed … system starts with an initial exclusive patent period that is much shorter, and then includes renewable periods of …

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 …