Similar Search Results

Patent law and the materiality of inventions in the California oil industry : the story of Halliburton v. Walker, 1935-1946

Díaz, Gerardo Con - In: Enterprise & society : the international journal of … 24 (2023) 1, pp. 174-196

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014308452

Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288522

Invention, Refinement and Patent Claim Scope : A New Perspective on the Doctrine of Equivalents

Meurer, Michael J.; Nard, Craig Allen - 2015

The doctrine of equivalents (DOE) allows courts to expand the scope of patent rights granted by the Patent Office. The … justification holds that certain frictions block patent applicants from literally claiming appropriately broad rights, and thus, the … DOE is available at trial to expand patent scope and overcome these frictions. The friction theory suffers from three main …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014072169

Population aging and inventive activity

Irmen, Andreas; Litina, Anastasia - 2016

This research empirically establishes and theoretically motivates the hypothesis that population aging has a hump-shaped effect on inventive activity. We estimate this hump-shaped relationship in a panel of 33 OECD countries over the period 1960-2012. The increasing part of the hump captures the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447559

Population Aging and Inventive Activity

Irmen, Andreas - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993693

Induced innovation, inventors, and the energy transition

Dugoua, Eugenie; Gerarden, Todd D. - 2023

We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on "clean" electricity technologies. Using natural gas price variation, we estimate output and entry elasticities of inventors and measure the medium-term impacts of a price increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383723

Measuring Patent's Influence on Technological Evolution : A Study of Knowledge Spanning as Driver of Inventive Activity

Corredoira, Rafael A.; Banerjee, Preeta - 2014

We introduce technological influence as a variable to measure an invention’s direct and indirect impact on the … evolution of technology. This provides a novel means to study the short and long run effect of invention antecedents on … technological evolution, invention activity, and economic growth. A comparison between models of technological influence and direct …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037323