his study of early American Patents and what they suggested about inventors' perceptions of patentability …

significant changes to this area of law. But what about patents themselves? Some studies have looked at how patent specifications …

patents (SEPs). I analyze the effects of injunctions and potential court-imposed FRAND rates on negotiated royalty rates. The …

This paper describes a new database of declared Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), discusses methods for matching … declared patents, and neglected the implications of SEP declarations for specific standards. Furthermore, we present a new … identifying other standard-related patents, and provides information on technological relationships between standards and standard …

introduce the assumption that classes have a regular chance to be split. Third, we study reclassification. The share of patents … belonging to the same 1-digit NBER category, but not always. We also document that reclassified patents tend to be more cited …

regimes changing the breadth and length of patents. Results suggest that enlarging the extent and duration of patents yields … triggered by patents. …

enforcement of their patents, on follow-on inventions. Patent pledges have been gaining popularity in recent years thanks to the … original data on more than 1,200 patents pledged from across technological fields between 2005 and 2017. We implement recent … the pledged patents, especially for high-quality pledged patents. The effect, however, appears to be much more limited for …