Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they … enforce tradable assets in new technological knowledge. By facilitating access to such markets in technology, patents enhanced … their technological creativity, and their response to such incentives increased overall technological progress. For this …

Increasing evidence indicates that a large share of granted patents are ''undeserved'' because they do not meet the …, introduced the post-grant validity challenge at the United States Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO). This procedure allows … any third party to question granted patents, possibly leading to patent revocation or scope reduction. This paper aims to …

Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they … enforce tradable assets in new technological knowledge. By facilitating access to such markets in technology, patents enhanced … their technological creativity, and their response to such incentives increased overall technological progress. For this …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

The debate on whether COVID-19 vaccine patents are slowing down the pace of vaccination and the recovery from the … of new drug patents using two quasi-experimental approaches: one based on changes in patent laws and another on the … pharmaceutical patents. …

We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the … broad spectrum of technologies. Process intensity varies by applicant type: companies file more process-intense patents than … individuals, and U.S. applicants file more process-intense patents than foreign applicants. We further show that patents with …

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm's U.S. inventors and cross …

There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …

on firms' innovation activities and incentives to innovate up to a high degree of technological imitation, while free … technological imitation is more detrimental for firms in innovation clusters because it lowers those firms' incentives to innovate … between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …

This study investigates the relationship between product market competition and the market value of innovation using … between competition and the value of innovation. Furthermore, we show that there is an "asymmetric" causal effect of … intensifying product market competition on the market value of innovation, using a quasi-natural experiment based on tariff …