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 …

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 …

quality) than their European counterparts after patent rights for software inventions were introduced. We then introduce a …

Traditional patent law theories teach that a patent's rights of exclusion are a patent's key benefit to the patentee … and are necessary to make the patent system work. Yet patentees are increasingly giving away such rights, in whole or in … part, as part of a growing phenomenon: patent pledges. In these scenarios, patentees voluntarily commit to limit …

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 …

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) grants many weak patents that would be ruled invalid if subjected … increase the accuracy of patent examinations. Others argue that the costs of such reform would outweigh the benefits; weak … patents reveal the “rational ignorance” of the Patent Office; it is optimal to leave examiners unequipped to identify more …