We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

We study the effect of stronger patent protection on innovation activities of firms and firm-product level markups …. Relying on cross-industry differences in the use of patents, we exploit firm-level variation in exposure to India's patent … reform. For firms more exposed to stronger patent protection, we find an increase in patenting and R&D expenditure post …

set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …

This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten … based on VaxPaL, a COVID-19 vaccines patent database developed by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Through the detailed … examination of patent applicants, filing dates, and offices of first and subsequent filing, the paper identifies patterns and …

motivations to invent, and the actual use and economic value of the patents. …

innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … the complementary role of the two protection methods. We identify protection strategies for single innovation firms and …

patents; however, most patent databases contain no information on whether patents have been commercialized, i.e., whether … innovations have been introduced in the market. This paper applies a new method to identify innovations in patent databases by … relating traditional patent quality indicators (patent renewal, patent equivalents and forward citations) to patent …

the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …In this paper, I empirically study the effect of IEEE’s IPR policy change in 2015 on standard related innovation. I … construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment …

for all patents granted in England in the period 1700-1850. Our findings indicate that macroinventions did not exhibit any …

innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by …