We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global … marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent … examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful …

An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the … a smaller (greater) patenting incentive if patent protection is weak (strong) … firm manages its rival’s beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market …

purposes behind such pledges. This Article uses concepts from signaling theory in other disciplines to identify several patent …Traditional patent law theories teach that a patent's rights of exclusion are a patent's key benefit to the patentee … and are necessary to make the patent system work. Yet patentees are increasingly giving away such rights, in whole or in …

neither. We show that two types of signalling equilibria are possible. Both are characterised by dispersion and Pareto …

comparison can enhance the signaling potential of dissipative advertising. From the viewpoint of the entrant, the choice of …