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received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and … for democratization. The United States deliberately created a patent system that differed from existing European systems … in ways that significantly affected the course of technological change. Patent rights in the U.S. helped to define and …
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received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and … for democratization. The United States deliberately created a patent system that differed from existing European systems … in ways that significantly affected the course of technological change. Patent rights in the U.S. helped to define and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318944
During the Industrial Revolution and subsequently, it is widely believed that African Americans contributed disproportionately little to the economic development of the United States, especially in comparison to European Americans and immigrants from Europe. Yet, African Americans lived in...
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This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensingafter World War I under the Trading with the …
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The market for ideas makes new combinations of inventions to form complex innovations such smart phones and mobile broadband networks. I show that bargaining in the market for ideas provides efficient coordination with complementary inventions. Extending neoclassical economic tools to the market...
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existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction – as opposed to the rate … to address problems with the current patent system: 3) How do patent pools, as a mechanism to mitigate litigation risks …
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when patent rights have been too broad or strong, they have actually discouraged innovation. This paper summarizes the …
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The twenty-first century “patent litigation explosion” is not unprecedented. In fact, the nineteenth century saw an … even bigger surge of patent cases. During that era, the most prolific patent enforcers brought hundreds or even thousands … more patent litigation, per U.S. patent in force, than the entire United States in 2013. Even the absolute quantity of late …
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This paper takes advantage of an exogenous shift towards patenting in chemicals to test whether patents contribute to the geographic diffusion of innovations. Data on U.S. innovations that were exhibited at four world fairs between 1851 and 1915 suggest that innovative activity became less...
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