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150 Years of Patent Office Practice

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Patents; Business Ventures
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Lerner, Josh. "150 Years of Patent Office Practice." American Law and Economics Review 7, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 112–143. (Earlier version distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 00-040 and National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 7478.)
  • November 17, 2009
  • Editorial

Inventing a Better Patent System

By: Robert C. Pozen
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Patents; System
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Pozen, Robert C. "Inventing a Better Patent System." New York Times (November 17, 2009).
  • spring 2001
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The Patent System and Innovation

By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner
Keywords: Patents; System; Innovation and Invention
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Jaffe, Adam, and Josh Lerner. "The Patent System and Innovation." RAND Journal of Economics 32, no. 1 (spring 2001): 167–199.
  • fall 2007
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The Design of Patent Pools: The Determinants of Licensing Rules

By: Josh Lerner, Marcin Strojwas and Jean Tirole
Patent pools are an important but little-studied economic institution. In this paper, we first make a set of predictions about the licensing terms associated with patent pools. The theoretical framework predicts that (a) pools consisting of complementary patents are... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Rights
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Lerner, Josh, Marcin Strojwas, and Jean Tirole. "The Design of Patent Pools: The Determinants of Licensing Rules." RAND Journal of Economics 38, no. 3 (fall 2007): 610–625. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 9680.)
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano and Pian Shu
Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Production; Trade; Competition; Innovation and Invention; United States
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Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano, and Pian Shu. "Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents." American Economic Review: Insights 2, no. 3 (September 2020): 357–374.
  • 17 Jan 2017
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from US Patents

Keywords: by David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu and Gary Pisano; Manufacturing
  • 2016
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu and Gary Pisano
Manufacturing is the locus of U.S. innovation, accounting for more than three quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The rise of import competition from China has represented a major competitive shock to the sector, which in theory could benefit or stifle innovation. In... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Competition; System Shocks; Trade; Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; China; United States
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Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu, and Gary Pisano. "Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22879, December 2016.
  • January 1996
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Outrage in Cyberspace: CompuServe and the GIF Patent

By: Josh Lerner and Benjamin Conway
CompuServe, an online services vendor, informs its software developers that they must enter into a licensing agreement to use the popular GIF compression. CompuServe claims that it is forced to do so because Unisys is enforcing its patent rights in this area. Others... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Web Services Industry
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Lerner, Josh, and Benjamin Conway. "Outrage in Cyberspace: CompuServe and the GIF Patent." Harvard Business School Case 296-057, January 1996.
  • February 2007
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Patents & Patients, CIPLA - Video

By: Rohit Deshpande
Keywords: Patents; Health; Media
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Deshpande, Rohit. "Patents & Patients, CIPLA - Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 507-705, February 2007.
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Patenting in the Shadow of Competitors

By: J. Lerner
Keywords: Competition; Patents
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Lerner, J. "Patenting in the Shadow of Competitors." Journal of Law & Economics 38, no. 2 (October 1995): 563–595.
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Little Patents and Big Secrets: Managing Intellectual Property

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
Exploitation of an innovation commonly requires some disclosure of enabling knowledge (e.g., to obtain a patent or induce complementary investment). When property rights offer only limited protection, the value of the disclosure is offset by the increased threat of... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Management; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Rights; Value; Information; Corporate Disclosure
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Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Little Patents and Big Secrets: Managing Intellectual Property." RAND Journal of Economics 35, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 1–22. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
  • May 2024
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Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents

By: Josh Lerner, Amit Seru, Nick Short and Yuan Sun
We develop a unique dataset of 24 thousand U.S. finance patents granted over the last two decades to explore the evolution and production of financial innovation. We use machine learning to identify the financial patents and extensively audit the results to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Investment Banks; Information Technology; Regulation; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Trends
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Lerner, Josh, Amit Seru, Nick Short, and Yuan Sun. "Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents." Journal of Political Economy 132, no. 5 (May 2024): 1391–1449.
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting

By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Patents; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Green Technology Industry
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Teodorescu, Mike Horia. "The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting." Working Paper, September 2017. (Job Market Paper.)
  • 16 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

Land Rover, for instance, while the Universal Serial Bus (USB) helps standardize the connection of countless computer peripherals. Intellectual property owners often strive to have their patents included in these standards, such that in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services
  • 04 Oct 2013
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Imperfect Information, Patent Publication, and the Market for Ideas

Keywords: by Deepak Hegde & Hong Luo; Legal Services
  • April 2018
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Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Martine R. Haas
How does the organization of patenting activity affect a firm’s patenting outcomes? We investigate how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope of their patent applications and the speed of their patent approvals by examining the main effects of... View Details
Keywords: Leader Experience; Micro-foundations Of Innovation; Scope; Speed; Team Diversity; Within-firm Data; Groups and Teams; Diversity; Patents; Leadership; Experience and Expertise; Outcome or Result
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Martine R. Haas. "Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms." Strategic Management Journal 39, no. 4 (April 2018): 977–1002.
  • November 2000
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Patent Policy Innovations: A Clinical Examination

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Patents; Policy; Innovation and Invention
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Lerner, Josh. "Patent Policy Innovations: A Clinical Examination." Vanderbilt Law Review 53 (November 2000): 1841–1856.
  • 2009
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Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation

By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento
We present a model of sequential innovation in which an innovator uses several research inputs to invent a new good. These inputs, in turn, must be invented before they can be used by the final innovator. As a consequence, the degree of patent protection affects the... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Revenue; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research; Motivation and Incentives
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Llanes, Gaston, and Stefano Trento. "Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-148, June 2009.
  • June 2015 (Revised January 2017)
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Epistar and the Global LED Market

By: Willy C. Shih, Chen-Fu Chien and Hung-Kai Wang
It took BJ Lee many years to learn how to navigate the patent minefield that was the global LED industry. When his company was first spun off from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan, he thought the essence of a good IP strategy was to develop a... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property Management; Patenting; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property; Patents; Electronics Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; United States; Japan; Taiwan
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Shih, Willy C., Chen-Fu Chien, and Hung-Kai Wang. "Epistar and the Global LED Market." Harvard Business School Case 615-053, June 2015. (Revised January 2017.)
  • 05 Dec 2013
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Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

individual's BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes," but the Court, wisely I believe, made thoughtful distinctions about what is and is not patentable, deciding that, "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent... View Details
Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health
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