innovation. We study the equilibrium innovation activity under three regimes: patents, no-patents and patent pools. Patent pools … increase the probability of innovation with respect to patents, but we also find that: (1) their outcome can be replicated by a … licensing scheme in which innovators sell complete patent rights, and (2) they are dynamically unstable. We find that none of …

The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains … at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new measure of litigiousness using patent opposition data. We find that the … degree of litigiousness and the density of patent thickets negatively affect the likelihood of firms entering new TDs. Across …

patenting in complex and discrete technologies. The model captures how competition for patent portfolios and complementarity of …We investigate incidence and evolution of patent thickets. Our empirical analysis is based on a theoretical model of … patents affect patenting incentives. We show that lower technological opportunities increase patenting incentives in complex …

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 …

30 OECD countries. It finds that patenting is highly concentrated: from 2010 to 2014, 10% of cities accounted for 64% of … patent applications to the European Patent Office, with the top five (Tokyo, Seoul, San Francisco, Higashiosaka and Paris …) representing 21.8% of applications. The share of the top cities in total patenting increased modestly from 1995 to 2014. Digital …

use a multi-informant longitudinal design combining unique survey and patent data on a multi-industry sample of about 163 … or exploitation, it is advisable to maintain it at an appropriate level. This article suggests a patent-based instrument …

between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …

AI innovation, there is a 0.7% to 1.6% decline in the labor share, which may have decreased by between 0.20 and 0 …

will result from the unbalanced worldwide patenting of climate change technologies, the magnitude of the coming innovation … climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent … innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the …