the expansion of the USPTO Patent Library system after 1975. Before the Internet, patent libraries gave inventors access … to patent documents. We find that after patent library opening, local patenting increases by 17% relative to control …

essential to the functioning of the patent system, legal scholars have expressed considerable skepticism about its value in … practice. To adjudicate this issue, we examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent and Trademark Depository Library system … between 1975 to 1997. Whereas the exclusion rights associated with patents are national in scope, the opening of these patent …

essential to the functioning of the patent system, legal scholars have expressed considerable skepticism about its value in … practice. To adjudicate this issue, we examine the expansion of the USPTO Patent and Trademark Depository Library system … between 1975 to 1997. Whereas the exclusion rights associated with patents are national in scope, the opening of these patent …

This article explores the propensity to patent in the light of the disclosure effect. Unlike earlier approaches … facilitating inventing around the patent for competitors. In our theoretical model, we find that the disclosure effect - contingent … on the competitive environment of the inventor - possibly has substantial negative effects on the propensity to patent …