Open up: a survey on open and non-anonymized peer reviewing
Our aim is to highlight the benefits and limitations of open and non-anonymized peer review. Our argument is based on the literature and on responses to a survey on the [...]
Social Finance
We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of [...]
Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure: Evidence from University Versus Corporate Patents
This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computational linguistics. Borrowing methods from the literature on second language acquisition, we analyze core linguistic [...]
Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement
The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised [...]
Linking Housing Policy, Housing Typology, and Residential Energy Demand in the United States
Residential energy demand can be greatly influenced by the types of housing structures that households live in, but few studies have assessed changes in the composition of housing stocks as [...]
Guide for the Granting of Compulsory Licenses and Government Use of Pharmaceutical Patents
Like other rights, patent rights are not absolute. There are situations in which their exercise can be limited to protect public interests. Such situations may arise, for instance, when access [...]
Patents, Property, and Prospectivity
When judges change the legal rules governing patents, those changes are always retroactive. That is, they apply equally to patents that have already been granted and patents that do not [...]
Dedicating Copyright to the Public Domain
This article explores whether authors can dedicate their copyright to the public domain. Such dedications are becoming increasingly relevant as authors now see the expansion of the public domain as [...]
Biosimilar Competition: Early Learning
Biologics accounted for roughly $145 billion in spending in 2018 (IQVIA, 2019). They are also the fastest growing segment of the pharmaceutical industry. The Biological Price Competition and Innovation Act [...]
Covid-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the U.S. Patent System Through November 2020
"This essay examines patent abandonment rates and application rates to determine if they can shed light on how the Covid-19 pandemic affected innovation. While the results show temporary perturbations, the [...]