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  • 03 Oct 2011
  • News

Kodak's Patent Portfolio, Bankruptcy

  • 17 Nov 2009
  • News

Inventing a Better Patent System

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Patent primer: patent vs. intellectual property rights

Is there a quick introduction about patent v.s intellectual property right for start-ups or small businesses? The following introduction materials may get you start quickly: Intellectual property covers View Details
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

products. The need to work with other manufacturers was quite limited. Today, the world is much more complicated. Not only are many more firms pursuing innovations in key technologies, but firms are much more willing to patent these... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
  • Background Note

International Enforcement of U.S. Patents

By: Robert C. Pozen and Jordan Hirsch
A company that owns a U.S. patent can enforce its patent protections in three ways: by filing a lawsuit in U.S. federal district court, by bringing action in the International Trade Commission, or through the World Trade Organization. This note discusses the pros and... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Patents; Courts and Trials; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights
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Pozen, Robert C., and Jordan Hirsch. "International Enforcement of U.S. Patents." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-022, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Some Facts of High-Tech Patenting

Keywords: by Michael Webb, Nick Short, Nicholas Bloom, and Josh Lerner
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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.)
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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
  • Article

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.)
  • 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. (Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Finance.)
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Patent Terminology: priority date

What is a priority date and why does it is matter? Priority date refers to the earliest filing date in a family of View Details

    Patent Trolls: Evidence and Proposed Solutions

     

    The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling • SCIENCE • VIDEO

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    • 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.)
    • 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 2nd PatCon, Boston, MA, May 11–12, 2012.
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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 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
    • 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
    • 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.)
    • 06 Feb 2020
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    What We Learned From Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

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