maintain an invention as a trade secret or seek a patent and disclose to the public the details of the invention. However, a … handful of scholars have recognized that because the patent disclosure requirements are not always rigorous, inventors may … sometimes be able to keep certain aspects of an invention secret, yet still receive a patent to the invention as a whole. Here …

A surprisingly small amount of empirical research has been focused on the process of obtaining a patent grant from the … United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). The purpose of this document is to describe the Patent Examination Dataset … (PatEX), make a large amount of information from the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval system (Public PAIR …

A surprisingly small amount of empirical research has been focused on the process of obtaining a patent grant from the … United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). One major reason for this lack of research has been the paucity of readily … the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval system (Public PAIR) more readily available to researchers and other …

The conventional wisdom is that the formation of patent pools is welfare enhancing when patents are complementary … and either increases spillovers in development or decreases the degree of product differentiation, patent pools can … why patent pools are uncommon in science-based industries such as biotech and pharmaceuticals that are characterized by …

model provides an argument that shorter product cycles can induce firms to file more patent applications. The firms may be … trapped in a prisoners' dilemma where all firms would jointly prefer to patent less and to not have a patent thicket. If firms … successful, this may create a patent thicket. The transition into a situation where firms start patenting many ideas instead of …

A surprisingly small amount of empirical research has been focused on the process of obtaining a patent grant from the … United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). The purpose of this document is to describe the Patent Examination Dataset … (PatEX), make a large amount of information from the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval system (Public PAIR …

This new version of the Patent Examination Research Dataset (PatEx) is based on data that the Office of the Chief … Economist downloaded from Patent Examination Data System (PEDS) on April 26, 2020. We parsed the XML and organized the data into …