-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

criteria of novelty or non-obviousness. In recent decades, many jurisdictions introduced patent reforms to avoid weak patent … applications and improve legal patent quality. In particular, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), enacted into law in 2011 … any third party to question granted patents, possibly leading to patent revocation or scope reduction. This paper aims to …

We analyze 7.7 million patents via textual analysis to develop a novel patent-to-patent measure of innovation … coverage of technologically similar pairs. In contrast with technological similarity determined with patent class filings, our …

This article uses the FTC's October 2003 white paper on the U.S. patent system as the point of departure for a plenary … system's two most fundamental economic questions: (1) what things are patentable, and (2) what a patent protects. In each … case it demonstrates, by detailed reference to current U.S. patent law, how far the U.S. system is from providing clear …

We build a new concordance between the NBER Patent Data and US Census micro-data, and use it to examine what happens … when firms patent. We find strong evidence that increases in patent stock are associated with increases in firm size and … increases in firm size, scope, and factor intensity subsequent to their first patent application. Evidence for increases in …

policy statement does not link the need for a robust patent system with the generation of the very technological innovation … must support innovation both upstream and downstream. Avoiding the temptation to resurrect patent hold-up arguments is the …

the statutory basis for exhaustion (in copyright) and common law basis (in patent and trademark law) and compare these …