We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act … (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more … facilitate a firm's innovation. However, we also highlight that mandatory patent disclosures can impose proprietary costs on …

This paper examines the effect of mandatory pre-grant patent publications on the innovation of venture capital (VC … relative improvements in innovation outputs for companies whose pre-AIPA patent applications received more "revise and resubmit … thus suggest that pre-grant patent publications generate larger benefits when they can more effectively reduce such …

Frivolous patent-infringement claims increase the cost of innovation for small businesses and force them to exit via … premature and discounted acquisitions. This study investigates the effect of abusive patent-infringement claims by patent trolls … on acquisitions of small firms. I exploit the staggered adoption of anti-patent troll laws in 35 states as a quasi …

of innovation and public health promotion by providing for "exceptions" at the global level. Finally, after having dealt …

consistent with this view, revealing that the adverse effect of environmental penalties on green innovation is particularly …