The paper compares and contrasts the patent-based indicators, traditionally used to assess a country’s technological … being misleading. Empirically, the paper is based on the statistical information on patent activity of the top-10 patenting … countries. It concludes with a clear demonstration of the need to employ a complex of patent-related indicators to make …

This Article explores the practical consequences of an important shift that has recently taken place in patent theory …. Although it was long agreed that the purpose of granting patents is to reward invention, today many scholars instead attempt to … justify the patent system based on its role in facilitating information exchange and enabling technical coordination among …

sometimes could rely instead on a consideration far more relevant to the patent system's goal of promoting innovation: the … range of topics at the core of contemporary patent policy debates, including patent privateering, FRAND-encumbered patents …The current approach for determining when courts should award injunctions in patent disputes involves a myopic focus on …

This Note applies the concept of "paradigm shifts" from the history and philosophy of science to describe how patents … scientific theory. Patents on research tools can prevent widespread access to these technologies and thus inhibit downstream … patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …

Release of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Office Action Research Dataset for Patents marks the … from USPTO examiners to the applicants of 2.2 million unique patent applications …

This paper considers the prospect of a government patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth. To this end, I modify … set-up, patent buyout by the government can lead to higher level of welfare without lowering an economy's growth rate …

Foundation (NSF), patents issued by the United States Patent Office (USPTO) to U.S. academic institutions more than doubled from … of all patents granted, academic institutions accounted for about 2% in the same time period. Patenting by universities …

The purpose of patent policy is to balance the incentive to invent against the ability of the economy to utilize and … incorporate new inventions and innovations. Substandard patents that upset this balance impose deadweight losses and other costs … on the economy. In this paper, we examine some of the deadweight losses that result from granting substandard patents in …

evidence for start-up firms on the role of patents as signals to investors, in particular to Venture Capitalists. This study …&D for a panel of established firms. The results show that patents do indeed attenuate financing constraints for small firms … to financing constraints, but also do not seem to benefit from a patent quality signal …

innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in … patent.” This regime would allow inventors to obtain patents on research inputs and extract their full value through … licensing and enforcement. Research patents would impose minimal administrative costs on the patent system and ultimately …