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06 Feb 2020
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What We Learned From Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

28 Jun 2010
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Bilski Ruling: The Patent Wars Untouched

April 1987 (Revised April 1992)
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LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Patent search: application status

How can I monitor a patent application status? If the patent application is filed in USPTO, go to PAIR Webpage, select Private PAIR or Public PAIR, and begin a search by various... View Details

04 Mar 2015
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Patent trolls: Why no one likes them

November 1994 (Revised January 2006)
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An Introduction to Patents and Trade Secrets

By: Josh Lerner

Provides an overview of patent and trade secret protection. Also discusses the legal processes through which intellectual property is protected and litigated. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Intellectual Property

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Patent terminology: Provisional vs nonprovisional

What is the difference between a provisional and non-provisional patent application? A nonprovisional patent application is normally considered the "regular" utility View Details

2020
Working Paper

The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen

No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical pattern in green patent... View Details

Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment; Decision Making; Policy; Energy; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Patents

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Patent terminology: Prior art

What is prior art how it can be used in patenting? In order to ensure that an invention is new and non-obvious (and therefore patentable), patent examiners conduct a prior art search. In this context the term art is used as in the phrase,... View Details

2004
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International Patenting and the European Patent Office: A Quantitative Assessment

By: Josh Lerner, Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

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06 May 2015
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A portfolio of patents

Former cable and satellite TV executive Kazie Metzger (MBA 1970) is president of Personalized Media Communications, an intellectual property firm focused on patents. (Published May 2015) View Details

April 2017
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The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Telework; Collaborating With Unions; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Trademarks; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; District of Columbia

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April 2017
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Prizes, Patents and the Search for Longitude

By: M. Diane Burton and Tom Nicholas

The 1714 Longitude Act created the Board of Longitude to administer a large monetary prize and progress payments for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude. However, the prize did not prohibit patenting. We use a new dataset of marine chronometer inventors to... View Details

Keywords: Prizes; Innovation; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives

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05 Apr 2011
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Google Bids $900 Million for Nortel Patent Assets

Winter 2013
Article

The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators

By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie

The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, or Kelley's Blue Book equivalent for patents, and when buyers and sellers do... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Platforms; Intermediaries; Aggregator; Patents; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Distribution Channels

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20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Patent terminology: Inventor, Applicant, and Assignee

the claimed invention. However, they may or may not have an ownership interest in the legal rights of the patent. Assignee: Organization(s) and individual(s) that have an ownership interest in the legal rights a patent offers. There may... View Details