Despite the wide use of two-tiered patent systems (patents and utility models (UMs)), there is little empirical … firms rank them relative to patents. We offer such an analysis using data from Germany. We find that larger firms are more …

broken system of filing patents. This article presents a deeper view of the latter and suggests tried-and-tested methods to …

A current refrain in patent policy discourse is that “overly-broad” patents of “dubious validity” retard innovation. We …

Designing around patents is prevalent but not often appreciated as a means by which patents promote economic … claims. We study the filing rate of incandescent lamp-related patents during 1878-1898 and find that the enforcement of … the lamps described in these lamp patents and compared them to Edison’s claimed invention to create a count of non …

Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repeatedly fail to … misbehavior, we can catch a glimpse of the social roles patents play when no one is watching. Drawing on insights from the … sociology of markets, I argue that patents are surreptitiously performing functions familiar from the grocery store, the …

, exclusivity, and industries. The finding, coupled with other major ones from the relevant empirical studies in NPEs and patents …

ensuring that decisionmakers consider the external benefits and costs of their actions. Patents, which confer exclusive rights … incentives to invent. However, inventions also produce harms, and how patents treat negative externalities from new technologies … has been largely overlooked. This Article is the first to extensively examine this issue. It argues that while patents …