We analyze the gender gap in the success of patent application at the USPTO. We leverage quasi-exogeneous variation … from the random assignment of patent examiners within technology fields, allowing us to find the causal impact of examiner … patent approval. This gender gap does not seem to be impacted by the gender of the examiner of the application. When we focus …

Inventors generally know more about their inventions than what is written down in patent applications. Because they … (1995) and model firm-inventor cooperation in the commercialization of a given invention. Tacit knowledge warrants inventor … is important for the successful commercialization of patents by using a detailed patent database. The database contains …

development through competition. We provide a novel detailed empirical study of the extent and timing of designing around patent … Edison’s incandescent lamp patent in 1891-1894 stimulated a surge of patenting. We studied the specific design features of … the lamps described in these lamp patents and compared them to Edison’s claimed invention to create a count of non …

We show that the acquisition of a startup inventor's first patent has a negative effect on the subsequent productivity … of the patent's inventor, leading to 6.7 fewer patents being granted to the inventor over five years. This effect is not … patent examiners ask them to cite, and examiners are more likely to cite patents that they have reviewed in the past. When …

emphasized strict construction of the Patent Act, but acknowledged three judge made exceptions to patentability. It disapproved … invalidated all of Bilski's hedging claims. And while the Justices agreed on one thing - a patent that “preempts” something (a …

performance, in particular with respect to innovations that are new to the market. At the invention level, our findings confirm … impact. We show that it is crucial to distinguish between direct science links at the invention level and indirect science …

Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops … crop-specific technology development, I find that the introduction of patent rights increased the development of novel … increase in crop yields. Patent rights, however, could come with potentially significant costs to the consumers of technology …

Inventors generally know more about their inventions than what is written down in patent applications. Because they … (1995) and model firm-inventor cooperation in the commercialization of a given invention. Tacit knowledge warrants inventor … is important for the successful commercialization of patents by using a detailed patent database. The database contains …

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 …