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Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law

By: Suzanne Scotchmer and Jerry R. Green

The stringency of the novelty requirement in patent law affects the pace of innovation because it affects the amount of technical information that is disclosed among firms. It also affects ex ante profitability of research. We compare weak and strong novelty... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Law

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Scotchmer, Suzanne, and Jerry R. Green. "Novelty and Disclosure in Patent Law." RAND Journal of Economics 21, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 131–146.

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Patent Terminology: priority date

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• 2024
• Working Paper

The Efficiency of Patent Litigation

By: Samuel Antill, Murat Alp Celik, Xu Tian and Toni M. Whited

How efficient is the U.S. patent litigation system? We quantify the extent to which the litigation system shapes innovation using a novel dynamic model, in which heterogeneous firms innovate and face potential patent lawsuits. We show that the impact of a litigation... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Lawsuits and Litigation; Growth and Development; Welfare; Patents

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Antill, Samuel, Murat Alp Celik, Xu Tian, and Toni M. Whited. "The Efficiency of Patent Litigation." Working Paper, May 2024.

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Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights

By: James J. Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao

Patents vary substantially in the degree of protection provided against unauthorized imitation. In this chapter we explore a range of work addressing the economic and policy implications of "weak" patents—patents that have a significant probability of being overturned... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Motivation and Incentives; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Rights; Monopoly; Business Startups

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Anton, James J., Hillary Greene, and Dennis Yao. "Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights." Innovation Policy and the Economy 6 (2006): 1–26. (Harvard users click here for full text.)

• 11 May 2012 - 12 May 2012
• Conference Presentation

Patents and Modularity

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Patents and Modularity." Paper presented at the 2^nd PatCon, Boston, MA, May 11–12, 2012.

• 2006
• Other Unpublished Work

Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry

By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson

Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Competition; Lawsuits and Litigation

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Alcacer, Juan, and Rachelle C. Sampson. "Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry." 2006. (Presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI, August 2005.)

• April 1987 (Revised April 1992)
• Exercise

Simplified Patent Race

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"Simplified Patent Race." Harvard Business School Exercise 187-167, April 1987. (Revised April 1992.)

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Patent search: Cortellis

How can I begin a patent search in Cortellis and can I search by therapeutic areas, e.g.? Cortellis for Competitive Intelligence combines a collection of pharmaceutical industry data and life science related content into a single platform... View Details

• June 2004
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Efficient Patent Pools

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole

Keywords: Patents

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Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "Efficient Patent Pools." American Economic Review 94, no. 3 (June 2004): 697–711. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 9175.)

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Patent search: license agreement

How to find patent license agreement data in the US? Since a patent license agreement is not a patent "assignment" or a patent application but is... View Details

• 2016
• Working Paper

Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas

By: Deepak Hegde and Hong Luo

In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)—which required US patent applications to be published 18 months... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Biotechnology Industry

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Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo. "Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas." Working Paper, February 2016. (Accepted for publication in Management Science.)

• July 2010
• Background Note

Remedies for Patent Infringement under U.S. Law

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Chad Carr

Under the U.S. Patent Act, a patent owner has a statutory right to exclude others from engaging in the unauthorized production, use, sale, or importation of a patented invention. This note examines how that right is enforced and what remedies a patent owner has when... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Patents; Law Enforcement; Rights; United States

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Goldberg, Lena G., and Chad Carr. "Remedies for Patent Infringement under U.S. Law." Harvard Business School Background Note 311-020, July 2010.

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Patent terminology: Classification codes

What are patent classification codes and how are they used? A classification system is an arrangement of hierarchical categories used to organize things by their characteristics or relationships. A View Details