The paper seeks to understand the impact of the patent system on innovation by examining shifts in the strength of … patent protection across sixty countries and a 150-year period. An examination of 177 policy changes reveals that … strengthening patent protection appears to have few positive effects on patent applications by entities in the country undertaking …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also … exist with the patent-granting process, they do not rise to the level of justifying a ban on software patents. Instead …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …

This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …