Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an … invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions … and the certification effect of patents which signals the ventures’ “quality” to investors. If the decision about patent …

We show that the acquisition of a startup inventor's first patent has a negative effect on the subsequent productivity … of the patent's inventor, leading to 6.7 fewer patents being granted to the inventor over five years. This effect is not … patent examiners ask them to cite, and examiners are more likely to cite patents that they have reviewed in the past. When …

innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family … commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological …

quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup’s subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating ….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 …

exploitation of their patent, alleging several reasons for that. -- entrepreneurship ; patent rights ; and innovation …This paper entitled "Patent as a motivation of starting a new entrepreneurial activity of high potential" based on a … patents by the inventors and tries to answer the question whether the patent can be a strong motive for the patentee to start …

Intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) are critical to fostering innovation and their relevance has grown …

on startup companies and the patent system. The study consisted of a survey, which led to primarily quantitative data, as … overriding characterization of how startups use and are affected by the patent system …

This paper entitled “Patent as a Motivation of Starting a New Entrepreneurial Activity of High Potential” based on a … patents by the inventors and tries to answer the question whether the patent can be a strong motive for the patentee to start … most of them being optimistic of new job creation, 2) a smaller number of patentees transferred or sold their patent rights …

Numerous scholars have proposed many different explanations for why inventors and innovative companies patent. Few … handful of studies examining how entrepreneurs and start-up companies use and are affected by the U.S. patent system, and none … Patent Survey, the first survey in the United States examining patents and entrepreneurship, which is currently underway at …