A surprisingly small amount of empirical research has been focused on the process of obtaining a patent grant from the … United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). One major reason for this lack of research has been the paucity of readily … the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval system (Public PAIR) more readily available to researchers and other …

A surprisingly small amount of empirical research has been focused on the process of obtaining a patent grant from the … United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). The purpose of this document is to describe the Patent Examination Dataset … (PatEX), make a large amount of information from the Public Patent Application Information Retrieval system (Public PAIR …

This new version of the Patent Examination Research Dataset (PatEx) is based on data that the Office of the Chief … Economist downloaded from Patent Examination Data System (PEDS) on April 26, 2020. We parsed the XML and organized the data into …

While records of the assignments (transactions) affecting US patents and patent applications have been maintained by … the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for over 40 years, few researchers have used them. To help remedy this deficiency … Patent Assignment Dataset, a database covering roughly 6 million assignments and other transactions recorded during 1970 …

While records of the assignments (transactions) affecting US patents and patent applications have been maintained by … the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for over 40 years, few researchers have used them. To help remedy this deficiency … Patent Assignment Dataset, a database covering roughly 6 million assignments and other transactions recorded during 1970 …

maintain an invention as a trade secret or seek a patent and disclose to the public the details of the invention. However, a … handful of scholars have recognized that because the patent disclosure requirements are not always rigorous, inventors may … sometimes be able to keep certain aspects of an invention secret, yet still receive a patent to the invention as a whole. Here …

This article investigates the role of industry driven coordination mechanisms such as consortia and patent pools in the … international Standard Development Organizations (SDO), we investigate how informal standardization consortia and patent pools … influence the number and timing of patent declarations to formal SDOs. In spite of the increasing problems raised by the high …

another firm's patent. If adaptation requires technology previously discovered by another firm, then the firm faces no direct … cost but may infringe another firm's patent and pay a licensing royalty. The main analysis considers the desirability and …

What determines the decision of an inventor to seek patent protection in a foreign jurisdiction, particularly one where … China's State Intellectual Property Office and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, I examine the industry distribution of …