preventing the patent laws from unduly restricting access to fundamental scientific discoveries. Some would argue that …

The Federal Trade Commission's 2003 innovation report revealed an interesting fact: the pharmaceutical industry is … largely satisfied with today's patent system while the electronics, software and Internet industries are not. This article … inventive process for pharmaceuticals. Our patent system, however, has no analogous requirement for the other fields. In them …

, technological invention quality, incentives to oppose patents before the European Patent Office (EPO), and observable patent … positively correlated with technological quality as defined by the patent offices. This premise is taken for granted in classical … defined by the patent offices - on private patent value. To do so, the theoretical links between private values of patents …

In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U … are attracted to firms that (i) have weak firm-specific invention capabilities, and (ii) employ other talented inventors …

acquires an interest in a patent (which the employee does automatically upon invention under U.S. law), that patent may become …The intersection between patent law and family law principles has the potential to create an irreconcilable conflict in … the area of patent ownership. These two legal worlds operate by virtue of different statutory provisions of automatic …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …