This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

development through competition. We provide a novel detailed empirical study of the extent and timing of designing around patent … Edison’s incandescent lamp patent in 1891-1894 stimulated a surge of patenting. We studied the specific design features of … the lamps described in these lamp patents and compared them to Edison’s claimed invention to create a count of non …

Despite the promise of efficiency through the use of expert agency adjudication in U.S. patent law, administrative … substitution continues to fall short. In a variety of ways, the decade-old system of Patent Office adjudication is simply an … important defects in the statutory design, but also from the enormous expansion and ascendancy of the Patent Office itself …

Patent Office power has grown immensely in this decade, and the agency is wielding its power in predictably troubling … action. However, this story of Patent Office ascendancy differs from that of other agencies in two important respects. One is … that the U.S. patent system still remains primarily a means for allocating property rights, not a comprehensive regime of …

Administrative patent revocation in the U.S. is poised to enter a new period of efficiency, though ironically it will … constitutionality of Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") proceedings was blunted by the Court’s accompanying rejection of partial … institution. This Patent Office practice of accepting and denying validity review petitions piecemeal had been a key part of the …

, technological invention quality, incentives to oppose patents before the European Patent Office (EPO), and observable patent … positively correlated with technological quality as defined by the patent offices. This premise is taken for granted in classical … defined by the patent offices - on private patent value. To do so, the theoretical links between private values of patents …

in spillover benefits which can provide dynamic efficiency gains to offset the static efficiency losses of the patent … decisions reducing the quantum of inventiveness required in Australia for grant of a standard patent. It commences with a short … grant of a monopoly for an invention, one can assess whether the legal proxies adopted are likely to sufficiently mirror the …

To study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening, we develop an integrative framework incorporating … four main policy instruments: patent office examination, pre- and post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show …. Simulations of the model, calibrated on U.S. patent and litigation data, indicate that patenting is socially excessive and the …

The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial, setting became overtly … substitutionary in the America Invents Act. No longer content to encourage court litigants to rely on Patent Office expertise for … emergent border between court and agency power in the U.S. patent system. By design, the border is not absolute. Concurrent …