How does patent enforcement affect subsequent innovation? I exploit patent infringement litigation in the United States … to analyze the effect of patent enforcement on cumulative innovation. The results imply that subsequent innovation … patent and reductions in asymmetric information are particular driver of the increase in follow-on innovation. Although there …

This paper investigates the main postulations of the R&D based growth models that innovation is created in the R …&D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of R …&D. The analysis employs various panel data techniques and uses patent and R&D data for 20 OECD and 10 Non-OECD countries for …

addressed in its recently released article titled, "Patent or Perish - Why your innovation can be your competitor's free lunch … or working around the innovation that the filer seeks to protect. This is the reason why patent drafting work should be … like to eliminate from its primary markets, but it does not have the adequate patent protection to do so. In a similar vein …

Patent citations are one of the most commonly-used metrics in the innovation literature. Leading uses of patent-to-patent … widespread availability, scholars have exploited citations listed on the front-page of patent documents. Citations appearing in … the full-text of patent documents have been neglected. We apply modern machine learning methods to extract these citations …

Women continue to make only a small, and recently actually diminishing, contribution to patent activity in Germany. In … 2016, female inventors accounted for just 4.4 per cent of all national patent applications filed with the German Patent and … Germany has become a little more female over the past decade. Women accounted for 8.4 per cent of patent applications from …

Women continue to make only a small, and recently actually diminishing, contribution to patent activity in Germany. In … 2016, female inventors accounted for just 4.4 per cent of all national patent applications filed with the German Patent and … Germany has become a little more female over the past decade. Women accounted for 8.4 per cent of patent applications from …