.S. Patent Office since 2001, we find that startups that win the patent “lottery” by drawing lenient examiners have, on average …, 55% higher employment growth and 80% higher sales growth five years later. Patent winners also pursue more, and higher … quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup’s subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …

the intellectual property rights of others. Patent thickets can thwart ongoing innovation, however, and throughout the … last 150 years, firms have stumbled into a number of patent thickets. Occasionally those firms responded by constructing … patent pools, which are organizational structures where multiple firms collectively aggregate patent rights into a package …

In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of … industry specific differences in the patent system from both a legal and economic perspective. The present article attempts to … that current European patent law holds substantial potential for technology-specific application. Even though the European …

more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …

between the propensity to jointly own a patent and proximity in the product market; b) joint patents are associated with less …

powerful strategic tool: the offers that he makes to the patent holder will affect the royalty rate that the Court may adopt as … availability of injunctions, the holder of a sufficiently weak patent will end up accepting below FRAND rates, in particular when … sufficiently strong patent will always end up in litigation by rejecting offers below FRAND. This arises in particular when the …

Using application-level data from the Patent Office from 2001 to 2012, merged with personnel data on patent examiners …, we explore the extent to which the key decision of examiners — whether to allow a patent — is shaped by the granting …-deviation increase in the grant rate of her peer group, an examiner in her first two years at the Patent Office will experience a 0 …

How should businesses adjust strategic patenting to changes in patent law? Theoretically, under particular conditions … for the Federal Circuit assumed jurisdiction over patent appeals, it strengthened the legal protection of patents …

Can firms use the U.S. patent system to communicate with the financial market? This study uses variation in local … patent information availability to identify local changes in trading volume in reaction to the release of a patent. The … variation comes from changes in the geographic location of U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries over time. I find a …