We investigate how patent classification influences the interpretation of patent statistics. Innovation researchers … currently make use of various patent classification schemas, which are hard to replicate. Using machine learning techniques, we … construct a transparent, replicable and adaptable patent taxonomy, and a new automated methodology for classifying patents. We …

prizes is flawed. I show how prices in the market for inventions provide state-contingent signals that guide invention … indicators of technological change. I conclude that replacing market prices with government prizes would harm invention …

, following individuals and firms for 20 years (1987-2006). We find that inventors' wages steadily increase before patent … applications are submitted to the European Patent Office, reach a peak around the time of submission and then decrease again. We … also find that the applications that will eventually lead to a granted patent receive a greater wage increase than those …

‘invention' as the primary substance for “vital functions” of the Patent Law. The definitions are important enough in traditional … legal definition of the term ‘invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal is based on my … primary substance of vital functions'. Thus I hold, that the 'water' for the Patent Law is the legal definition of the term …

, disclosure, certification, standardization, and divisibility. Second, patents provide efficient incentives for invention …, patents as intangible real assets promote the financing of invention and innovation. The market foundation role of patents …

'invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal for use the RWP basis on my circa 25 years … 'Patentable Invention as the Legal Object in the Light of Systems Thinking Big (whole) Picture in Patent Laws' I have presented in …The present article is in principle the continuation of my one 'Legal Definition of the Term 'Invention' as the Primary …

received for the first patent. The higher career productivity seems to be a consequence of higher individual ability rather …This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their … remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked …

data to test the assumption in the context of agriculture. This paper analyzed twenty years of agricultural production data …

past innovations. With full patent protection, followers can catch up to the leader in their industry either by making the … simple form of licensing. Second, we show that full patent protection is not optimal from the viewpoint of maximizing the …

categories of broad legal framework defined by the Czech patent law. We found that each university complies formally with the law …