What proportion of patent applications filed at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are eventually granted? Many experts have suggested that the USPTO approves nearly all applications, blaming this [...]
This paper assesses the validity and accuracy of firms’ backward patent citations as a measure of knowledge flows from public research by employing a newly constructed dataset that matches patents [...]
This report surveys the empirical literature from economics and related fields on patents and innovation. In particular, it reviews and synthesizes the empirical evidence on patents and first-generation innovation, the [...]
The Federal Circuit has departed from the fundamental principle of the patent system: an invention must be new to be patentable. Instead, it held that second comers may receive the [...]
We link USPTO patent data to U.S. Census Bureau administrative records on individuals and firms. The combined dataset provides us with a directory of patenting household inventors as well as [...]
The Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) thanks the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and, in particular, Under Secretary of Commerce and Director of the USPTO, Andrei Iancu, for [...]
I shall try, in this survey, to show why I think patent statistics are interesting in spite of all the difficulties that arise in their use and interpretation. To do [...]
This paper updates the statistics on the five years after Alice v. CLS Bank and discusses 19 Federal Circuit cases (including their exemplary patent claims) that found eligibility upon Alice [...]
Why should a property interest exist in an intangible item? In recent years, arguments over intellectual property have often divided proponents – who emphasize the importance of providing incentives for [...]
This paper examines several recent avenues of empirical research into the enforcement of" intellectual property rights. To frame these issues, we start with a stylized model of the patent" litigation [...]