This paper investigates whether patent fee policies are a potential factor underlying the boom in patent applications … observed in major patent offices. We provide the first panel-based evidence suggesting that fees affect the demand for patents … in three major patent offices (EPO, USPTO and JPO), with a price elasticity of about -0.4 (similar to that of the …

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries … duration and content of patent and price control regimes. Price regulation strongly delays launch, while longer and more … extensive patent protection accelerates it. Health policy institutions, and economic and demographic factors that make markets …

innovations by taking more time to perform their reviews. We study the relationship between the length of patent review and the … importance of inventions in a theoretical model. We build a simple model of the US patent review process. The model predicts that …, controlling for a patent's position in the new technology cycle, more important innovations would (and should) be approved more …

software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent disputes, and … the fragmentation of patent rights ('patent thickets') which increases the transaction costs of enforcement. We develop a …

This paper develops a methodology to compare the quality of examination services across patent offices. Quality is … defined as the extent to which patent offices comply with their patentability conditions in a transparent way. The methodology … patent offices in Europe (EPO), Japan (JPO) and the US (USPTO) shows that their operational designs differ substantially: the …

The renewal of patents and their geographical scope for protection constitute two essential dimensions in a patent …’s life, and probably the most frequently used patent value indicators. The intertwining of these dimensions (the geographical … arbitrary choice on the second. This paper proposes a new indicator of patent value, the Scope-Year index, combining the two …

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is two-fold. First, we show how the patent … policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …

This paper aims at contributing to the literature on the relationship between research efforts and patent counts. It is … claimed that the "propensity-to-patent" should be split into an "appropriability propensity" and a "strategic propensity". The … five alternative patent indicators. The results confirm that the distinction between the two types of propensity matter …