patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy …Patents have long been regarded as the ‘gold standard’ of intellectual property protection. In “Little patents and big … mechanisms are applicable, secrecy provides more protection. It is found that firms keep small inventions secret, use both …

. -- heterogeneous inventions ; innovation size ; intellectual property rights ; patents ; patent filing fees ; patentability standards … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy …Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In "Little patents and big …

framework. -- filing fees ; imitation ; innovation ; probabilistic patent rights ; R&D ; simultaneous innovation ; trade secrets …Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical … findings that secrecy is considered more important for appropriating returns, recent theories predict that firms keep their …

innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to … climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent …

This paper utilizes a data set of over 208,000 U.S. patents applied for between 1975 and 2010 to study development of … strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data … strategy reveals there was an almost universal drop in patent social value in the second half of the 1990s, signaling a shift …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical … findings that secrecy is considered more important for appropriating returns, recent theories predict that firms keep their … results on the relation between patenting and innovation size are then confronted with survey data for small European firms …

interest. Second, patents are now defined as securing only a right to exclude, and this has unhinged patent conveyance … creation of lesser estates or restrictive covenants for real property. In sum, early American courts incorporated into patent … concepts of "assignments" and "licenses." Given widespread confusion today concerning patent conveyance doctrines, this chapter …

-centered open innovation, characterized by a for-profit motive and the interplay between patents and contracts, resulting in …Open innovation is the subject of increased scholarly debate. A lot of attention has thereby been paid to firm … communities the present paper examines how the law can assist in establishing a new approach to open innovation (‘new' open …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …