introduce measures that leverage patent similarity to provide insight into innovation and intellectual property law issues of …We introduce and describe the Patent Similarity Data set, comprising vector space model-based similarity scores for … data set, joining it with other available patent data, and using it in their research …

We develop an index that compares the quality of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications by considering citations … is decreasing over time. We find that the patent quality of firms increases in R&D stocks but decreases with the …

PCT patent applications reach only a third of the non-Chinese quality benchmark, the extension towards domestic and self … are to be interpreted as a measure of patent quality. …

Eli Lilly recently sued Canada for $500 million under investor-state dispute mechanisms, due to Canadian court … decisions invalidating Lilly’s patents. Canada’s decisions were based in what is sometimes known as the “promise doctrine ….” Where a patent applicant promises a certain utility to their invention, their application must demonstrate or soundly …

innovation for their welfare effects. Its premise is that the enhancement of social welfare is included among the purposes of … competition and intellectual-property laws. It also assumes that innovation is a major contribution to long-run welfare. The paper … both governments to the issue of regulatory delay eroding some period of patent protection. Second, the paper considers the …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten … based on VaxPaL, a COVID-19 vaccines patent database developed by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Through the detailed … examination of patent applicants, filing dates, and offices of first and subsequent filing, the paper identifies patterns and …

find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …This paper tries to find how firms use IPRs in the form of patents to protect innovation capital and find determinants …

property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic … creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …