on our network theory of innovation, we develop an empirical, algorithmic measure of patentability—what we term a patent … phase and during patent litigation. Our use of network science to develop a legal algorithm is a methodological innovation …Patent law is built upon a fundamental premise: only significant inventions receive patent protection while minor …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …