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Simon, Brenda M. - 2017

Patents and trade secrets are often considered economic substitutes. Under this view, inventors can decide either to maintain an invention as a trade secret or seek a patent and disclose to the public the details of the invention. However, a handful of scholars have recognized that because the...

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Technical Documentation for the 2019 Patent Examination Research Dataset (Patex) Release

Miller, Richard - 2020

This new version of the Patent Examination Research Dataset (PatEx) is based on data that the Office of the Chief Economist downloaded from Patent Examination Data System (PEDS) on April 26, 2020. We parsed the XML and organized the data into the familiar PatEx data files, following the...

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The USPTO Patent Examination Research Dataset : A Window on the Process of Patent Examination

Graham, Stuart J.H; Marco, Alan C.; Miller, Richard - 2016

A surprisingly small amount of empirical research has been focused on the process of obtaining a patent grant from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). The purpose of this document is to describe the Patent Examination Dataset (PatEX), make a large amount of information from the...

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The Pathologies of Data-Generating Patents

Sichelman, Ted M.; Simon, Brenda M. - 2017

Previously, we introduced the concept of “data-generating patents,” which are patented inventions that by design produce valuable data through their operation or use. When holders of data-generating patents possess market power over the patented invention, they often indirectly enjoy market...

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Stylized Facts of U.S. Patenting – Issue Rates, Entry Pendency, Characteristics of Office Actions, Examiner Citations and Child Continuations across Technology Centres and Geograph...

Shah, Anand; Bahri, Anu - 2020

We examined ten years (1st January 2008 until 31st December 2017) of the regular non-provisional utility applications data (~3.63 million applications) from three different United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sources - Patent Examination Data System (PEDS), Patents-view database...

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The IEEE-SA Revised Patent Policy and Its Definition of 'Reasonable' Rates : A Transatlantic Antitrust Divide?

Petit, Nicolas - 2016

The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in the US (Sidak, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a similarly lenient antitrust approach to Standard Setting Organizations’ (“SSOs”) rate setting policies...

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Utility Model Patent Regime ‘Strength’ and Technological Development : Experiences of China and Other East Asian Latecomers

Prud'homme, Dan - 2017

This paper analyzes how strategic calibration of utility model patent regimes – which provide a type of patent right that is distinct from invention patents and is far less studied in the literature – over time is intended to facilitate technological development. To do this, the paper...

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Tell me who you patent with and I'll tell you who you are : evidence from inter-regional patenting networks in three emerging technological fields

Marsan, Giulia Ajmone; Primi, Annalisa - 2011

This paper presents an overview of co-patenting trends at the national and regional level in three technology fields (biotechnology, telecommunications and renewable energy), across regions in the OECD and emerging economies, from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. After a general introduction on...

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Impact of counterfeiting on the performance of digital technology companies

Butticè, Vincenzo; Caviggioli, Federico; Franzoni, Chiara - 2018

innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … impact of counterfeiting on the performance of companies has not been tested empirically, due to methodological problems … counterfeiting could have in part a beneficial effect on the performance of companies, due to indirect advertising, calling for …

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Why Do Some Patents Get Licensed While Others Do Not?

Ruckman, Karen Elizabeth - 2017

To understand why some patents get licensed and others do not we estimate a portfolio of firm- and patent-level determinants for why a particular licensor's patent was licensed over all technologically similar patents held by other licensors. Using data for licensed biopharmaceutical patents, we...

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