generating subsequent citations to patents as a lens for viewing knowledge diffusion. We find that the probability of patent … citation over time after a patent is granted fits well to a double-exponential function that can be interpreted as the mixture …

We compare the geographic location of patent citations to those of the cited patents, as evidence of the extent to …

technologies. Here we combine information from patent applications with bibliographic data to shine light on the second process …

this heterogeneous quality distribution. A pertinent question then arises: How should we define and measure patent quality …? Accepting that different stakeholders have different views of this concept, we take a multi-dimensional view of patent quality … in this work. We first test the consistency of popular post-grant outcomes that are often used as patent quality measures …