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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
Since the 1990s, several Western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against 'bio-piracy'. We explore conditions under which firms and local stakeholders share rents from such patents. Our... View Details
Keywords: Rents From New Technology; Local Stakeholders; Herbal Patents; QCA; Fuzzy Set Analysis; Qualitative Case Studies; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Patents; Emerging Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 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
  • 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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  • 04 Sep 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Some Facts of High-Tech Patenting

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

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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  • 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
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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
  • 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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  • June 2004
  • Article

Efficient Patent Pools

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
Keywords: Patents
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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
  • 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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    Patent Trolls: Evidence and Proposed Solutions

     

    The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling • SCIENCE • VIDEO

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    • Article

    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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    • 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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    • 20 Aug 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

    role by sticking up for small inventors, going up against big companies that steal the ideas of entrepreneurs who are unable to fight their own legal battles. (NPEs acquire patents either by purchasing them from companies, inventors, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services
    • 11 May 2012 - 12 May 2012
    • Conference Presentation

    Patents and Modularity

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
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    • April 1987 (Revised April 1992)
    • Exercise

    Simplified Patent Race

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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
    • 06 Feb 2020
    • News

    What We Learned From Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents