Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? We examine responses to the Japanese patent … reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners and professional documents for patent agents suggest the reforms significantly … expanded the scope of patent rights. However, econometric analysis using both Japanese and U.S. patent data on 307 Japanese …

patenting decisions are unresponsive to differences in patent laws. Cross-section evidence suggests that high-quality and urban …

In 2014-2015, policymakers made changes to the patent system that were intended to decrease abusive litigation and … Mercado, Priyanka Vyas, we document the following changes: patent complaints across technology areas are much more likely to …; we also find a decline in scale (10+) and NPE (both PAE and non-PAE) assertions. The data suggests that patent reform has …

This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding …

patent applications cover inventions that will lead to FDA-approved drugs, potentially compromising the efficiency and … effectiveness of the agency’s efforts. Nor is it known how drug patent applicants differ from others in their use of examination … listing in the FDA’s “Orange Book.” We find that even within the same technology areas, patent applications that mature into …

The global pharmaceutical industry is in an era of greater uncertainty because of looming patent expiries of …

This submission takes a public policy perspective, focusing on the public return from the patent system through … competition based on the new technology after the 20-year patent monopoly period expires. The government has agreed time …-limited monopolies to encourage domestic invention (the patent system). At the end of the agreed period, the patented invention should be …

-life, treatment cost, target clinicians, availability, owner, stage of development, patent life, product differentiation, number of …