The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in … the antitrust risk for all forms of coordination, including arrangements of the type found in the IEEE-SA updated patent …

Patent scope is central to the sale of ideas, which can spur economic growth and provide significant gains from trade …. Awarding an inventor a patent on a new idea partially solves a commitment problem that would otherwise prevent the inventor … from selling the idea. (Arrow, 1962). In the absence of a patent, a prospective buyer cannot credibly promise not to steal …

Patent scope is one of the important aspects in the debates over “patent quality.” The purported decrease in patent … licensing and litigation costs. However, these debates often occur without well-defined measurements of patent scope. This paper … explores two very simple metrics for measuring patent scope based on claim language: independent claim length and independent …

This working paper critically examines the pharmaceutical industry and the incentive argument in patent law. It begins … by framing an overview of the industry and patent law, focusing on U.S. and U.K. law, and multilateral agreements, and … efforts by international organizations, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO). Next, the paper considers patent incentive …

We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global … marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent … examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful …

factors for technology invention related to green chemistry in Japan using patent application data and a decomposition … increased because of the scale-up of overall research activities and increased priority. Additionally, the number of patent …

development through competition. We provide a novel detailed empirical study of the extent and timing of designing around patent … Edison’s incandescent lamp patent in 1891-1894 stimulated a surge of patenting. We studied the specific design features of …-infringing designs by filing date. Most of these non-infringing designs circumvented Edison’s patent claims by creating substitute …

Patent Office exercises regularly and effectively: technology classification. This agency-court asymmetry has persisted for … decades but has now become unmanageably problematic for two related reasons. First, Supreme Court guidance, patent reform … legislation, and academic commentary have all broadly rejected long-standing patent exceptionalism in administrative law, while …

knowledge acquired from outside each patent’s technological domain. Our results do not seem to support the claim above …

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, all countries having patent systems required patentable inventions to be … nonobvious. The nonobviousness requirement is considered to be so central to patent policy that it has frequently been called the …