A frequently made claim in the innovation literature is that important inventions involve the transfer of new knowledge … knowledge acquired from outside each patent’s technological domain. Our results do not seem to support the claim above …

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 …

In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so … by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor’s Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA) — which required US patent applications … to be published 18 months after their filing date rather than at patent grant — on the timing of licensing deals in the …

. -- heterogeneous inventions ; innovation size ; intellectual property rights ; patents ; patent filing fees ; patentability standards … mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

traditional property theory is determinative in patent law. Early American courts secured to patentees the same conveyance rights … creation of lesser estates or restrictive covenants for real property. In sum, early American courts incorporated into patent … concepts of "assignments" and "licenses." Given widespread confusion today concerning patent conveyance doctrines, this chapter …

-expression dichotomy in copyright law, to the exclusion of abstract ideas in patent law, and to the protection of ideas as trade secrets … (non)protectability of ideas in a clearer or more direct way (mostly in patent law) …

incentives to invest. Yet, they could damage the efficacy of innovation investments that crucially rest on employee incentives …

, patents as intangible real assets promote the financing of invention and innovation. The market foundation role of patents …, disclosure, certification, standardization, and divisibility. Second, patents provide efficient incentives for invention …, innovation, and investment in complementary assets so that the market for inventions is a market for innovative control. Third …