We show that the acquisition of a startup inventor's first patent has a negative effect on the subsequent productivity … of the patent's inventor, leading to 6.7 fewer patents being granted to the inventor over five years. This effect is not … patent examiners ask them to cite, and examiners are more likely to cite patents that they have reviewed in the past. When …

attention. This paper fills that gap by asking how patent acquisitions interact with firm investment policy. I find that patent … more technological expertise and investment opportunities acquire more patents. Patent sales are the dominant type of … contract and maximize investment incentives; patent licenses frequently contain royalties, which induce under …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

, alternative patent: the inclusive patent. The inclusive patent is perceived as a one-sided right geared to include rather than to …. The inclusive patent is further conceived as a registration patent obtainable at low cost. The inclusive patent regime may … be developed as a semi-codified regime where the inclusive patent entitlement is provided by law and the open source …

affect emerging market patent systems.The paper will conclude that the discussions about the current surge of emerging market … patent filings reveal a fundamental tension between two different patent discourses: a more conventional/legal narrative … two facets of patents, can a meaningful response to the current emerging market patent tsunami be developed …

the user in the assessment of the subject matter covered by the patent claims and in creating a comprehensive overview of … the patent situation within this field. These tools have been used in a pilot study on 11 selected hereditary disorders …

, conventional one-to-one licensing and compulsory licensing, as well as patent pools and clearing-house mechanisms. The last two …

A great deal has been said in recent years about patent disclosure. But to say that there is a disclosure function in … the patent system implies that there is non-disclosure functioning in the patent system as well. For some information to … be disclosed in a patent, other information must go undisclosed; for some things to be included, other things must be …

critiquing current patent practice implicitly assumes that the patent functions as a form of technical document ….Careful consideration of the artifices by which a new patent is staged reveals parallels to the known staging of technical papers, including …. Patent formation employs its own decidedly non-scientific strategies for settling controversies and reaching closure. In …