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 … economic parlance), but patent theorists today can draw at least two important lessons from it. First, it reveals how …

find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing …. It also turns out that the perceived effectiveness of a patent depends on a firm's size, theinnovation type and … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …