between the enforcement of a secrecy order and follow-on inventions, as captured with patent citations and text-based measures … inventions in the same technological field as the secreted patent …

weight in the design of the patent system because patented inventions would have been disclosed anyway. Even the few legal …

effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application … patent are negatively related as opposed to common intuition, (ii) in industries with imperfect appropriability in case of … secrecy the extent of the technological lead is positively associated with the propensity to patent, and that (iii) the …

We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act … (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more … the law. These findings suggest patent disclosures generate both spillover benefits and proprietary costs. Our findings …

Less than a handful of casebooks are truly open source, in the sense of being fully modifiable. Patent Law: An Open …-Source Casebook is the first patent law casebook that provides adopting professors, students, and others the ability to fully modify …