This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and …

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity … by electronics manufacturers. State-owned firms spend more on R&D per patent, but hold fewer patents per researcher than … patent holders. Furthermore, the paper examines what drives patenting activity. Higher R&D spending by the firm and higher …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … provide a rather complete picture of the innovation activities of Italian firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we …

Do stronger intellectual property rights incentivize female participation in innovation? We provide new evidence on … innovation …

innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate … the complementary role of the two protection methods. We identify protection strategies for single innovation firms and … for the same innovation or for different innovations. Employing firm panel data from Germany, we find fairly few …

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 …

attendant constellation of tacit knowledge regarding the interpretation and application of the information in the patent. The … through the patent system also provides important stability to attendant tacit knowledge. Patent doctrines regarding prior art … patent procurement and enforcement must take such effects into account …

Software patents not only do no promote innovation, they instead reduce it. The U.S. Executive branch has recommended … recommendations for reform. Others have suggested, among other things, enhancing software patent claim disclosure requirements to … reducing the value of most software patents. Instead, the only way to optimally reform software patent law without destroying …

Software patents not only do no promote innovation, they instead reduce it. The U.S. Executive branch has recommended … recommendations for reform. Others have suggested, among other things, enhancing software patent claim disclosure requirements to … reducing the value of most software patents. Instead, the only way to optimally reform software patent law without destroying …

This article investigates patent protection for a long sequence of innovations where firms repeatedly supersede each … using a patentability requirement--a minimum innovation size required for patents. A patentability requirement can stimulate … to innovation …