intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …

We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act … (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more … facilitate a firm's innovation. However, we also highlight that mandatory patent disclosures can impose proprietary costs on …

Patent law assumes that stronger protection promotes innovation, yet empirical evidence to test this “innovation …-generation innovation in electric light and now threatens the future of innovation in mobile computing. A new appreciation of patent warfare … should prompt increased skepticism of the “innovation assumption” at the heart of patent law. Patent protection clearly …

Software patents not only do no promote innovation, they instead reduce it. The U.S. Executive branch has recommended … recommendations for reform. Others have suggested, among other things, enhancing software patent claim disclosure requirements to … reducing the value of most software patents. Instead, the only way to optimally reform software patent law without destroying …

Software patents not only do no promote innovation, they instead reduce it. The U.S. Executive branch has recommended … recommendations for reform. Others have suggested, among other things, enhancing software patent claim disclosure requirements to … reducing the value of most software patents. Instead, the only way to optimally reform software patent law without destroying …

Does U.S. patent law increase the competitiveness of U.S. firms in global markets? This Article argues that, contrary … to the beliefs of many U.S. lawmakers, U.S. patent law currently undermines the ability of U.S. firms to compete in … global markets because strong U.S. patent rights actually weaken an overlooked but critical determinant of U …

We investigate the innovational determinants of “Patent Applications” in Europe. We use data from the European … Innovation Scoreboard-EIS of the European Commission for 36 countries in the period 2010-2019. We use Panel Data with Fixed … positive association with “Patent Applications” are “Human Resources” and “Intellectual Assets”, while the variables that show …

patenting decisions are unresponsive to differences in patent laws. Cross-section evidence suggests that high-quality and urban …

patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …