this study to gain insight into technological innovation in Canada through the lens of the United States (“U.S.”) patent … system. Comprehensive patent data of the sort required to make direct measurements of the Canadian patent system is not yet … available in a form that lends itself to direct analysis, in particular patent data and metadata available as bulk downloads. In …

century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents …) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization ("license" patents). The data include a large number of "license …" patents that cannot be linked to government funding from patent text or other sources. Combining the historical data with …

followed their strengthening over the past two decades, such as the soaring cost of patent litigation. The generally favourable …

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

forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications ("blocking citations"). Empirical …. This finding adds to the patent value literature by showing that different types of patent citations carry different …

steadily declined, the market value of patents made a large and sustained gain in the new millennium. An additional patent per …

policy statement does not link the need for a robust patent system with the generation of the very technological innovation … must support innovation both upstream and downstream. Avoiding the temptation to resurrect patent hold-up arguments is the …