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  • 03 Dec 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Alan Marco, US Patent and Trademark Office

  • July 2000
  • Case

Patent & License Exchange, The: Enabling a Global IP Marketplace

The Patent & License Exchange (pl-x) is a start-up company seeking to create a market for intellectual property over the Web. The company has targeted the United States as its initial market and has developed its services and processes for the United States. Now it is... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Globalized Markets and Industries; Service Industry; Japan; United States
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Chesbrough, Henry W., and Edward T Smith. "Patent & License Exchange, The: Enabling a Global IP Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 601-019, July 2000.
  • 2007
  • Article

Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation

By: Atul Nerkar, Srikanth Paruchuri and Mukti Khaire
This paper proposes that patents are real options that allow holders of patents the right but not the obligation to sue others. We suggest that the likelihood of a patent's being litigated is positively associated with the value of the patent and the extent of... View Details
Keywords: Value; Corporate Disclosure; Lawsuits and Litigation; Patents; Rights; Business Processes
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Nerkar, Atul, Srikanth Paruchuri, and Mukti Khaire. "Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation." Real Options in Strategic Management. Advances in Strategic Management 24 (2007): 247–274.
  • November 2006
  • Article

Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows: The Influence of Examiner Citations

By: Juan Alcacer and Michelle Gittelman
Analysis of patent citations is a core methodology in the study of knowledge diffusion. However, citations made by patent examiners have not been separately reported, adding unknown noise to the data. We leverage a recent change in the reporting of patent data showing... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Knowledge Sharing; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Information Technology; Prejudice and Bias; Change
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Alcacer, Juan, and Michelle Gittelman. "Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows: The Influence of Examiner Citations." Review of Economics and Statistics 88, no. 4 (November 2006): 774–779.
  • 16 Jan 2014
  • News

A Way To Mitigate Smartphone Patent Litigation

  • 26 Mar 2020
  • News

Patent protection should take a backseat in a crisis

  • June 2022
  • Article

The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond

By: Josh Lerner and Amit Seru
Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovation increasingly used in financial economics (and management research more broadly). Biases may result, however, from the interactions between the truncation of patents and citations and the changing... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Analytics and Data Science; Corporate Finance; Research
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Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru. "The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 6 (June 2022): 2667–2704.
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond

By: Josh Lerner
Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative activity inside the firm and are increasingly used in corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and industry composition of innovative... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Analytics and Data Science; Corporate Finance; Research; Problems and Challenges
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Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru. "The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-042, November 2017.
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • News

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

    What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

    Economists have debated the extent to which strengthening patent protection spurs or detracts from technological innovation. This paper examines the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent and copyright protections... View Details
    • March 2011
    • Article

    To Join or Not to Join: Examining Patent Pool Participation and Rent Sharing Rules

    By: Josh Lerner and Anne Layne-Farrar
    In recognition that participation in modern patent pools is voluntary, we present empirical evidence on participation rates and the factors that drive the decision to join a pool, including the profit sharing rules adopted by the pool's founders. In most participation... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Alliances; Vertical Integration; Standards
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    Lerner, Josh, and Anne Layne-Farrar. "To Join or Not to Join: Examining Patent Pool Participation and Rent Sharing Rules." International Journal of Industrial Organization 29, no. 2 (March 2011): 294–303.
    • June 2007
    • Article

    What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

    By: Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu
    Economists have debated the extent to which strengthening patent protection spurs or detracts from technological innovation. This paper examines the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent and copyright protections are... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Patents; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
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    Lerner, Josh, and Feng Zhu. "What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland." International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, no. 3 (June 2007): 511–529. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11168.)
    • 11 Dec 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond

    Keywords: by Josh Lerner and Amit Seru
    • 27 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

    Keywords: by Yongwook Paik & Feng Zhu; Legal Services

      The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry

      We investigate the effect of patent wars on firm strategy using data from the global smartphone market. In particular, we analyze how smartphone vendors not involved in patent litigation strategically respond to increased litigation risks in this industry. We find... View Details

      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

      We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants’ receiving countries. We find that countries are 25% to 50% more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Migration; Patent; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Information Technology; Knowledge Dissemination
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      Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Hillel Rapoport. "Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-119, May 2019.
      • summer 1994
      • Article

      The Importance of Patent Scope: An Empirical Analysis

      By: J. Lerner
      Keywords: Patents
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      Lerner, J. "The Importance of Patent Scope: An Empirical Analysis." RAND Journal of Economics 25, no. 2 (summer 1994): 319–333. (Earlier version distributed as Center for Science and International Affairs (Kennedy School of Government) Working Paper No. 91-04. Reprinted in The Economics of Intellectual Property, edited by Ruth Towse and Rudi Holzhauer. Vol. 145 in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.)
      • spring 2001
      • Article

      Introduction: Symposium on the Patent System and Innovation

      By: Josh Lerner, Adam Jaffe and Jean Lanjouw
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      Lerner, Josh, Adam Jaffe, and Jean Lanjouw. "Introduction: Symposium on the Patent System and Innovation." RAND Journal of Economics 32, no. 1 (spring 2001): 75–75.
      • 08 Dec 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Shihe Fu; Technology
      • 15 Apr 2015
      • News

      Biogen, Danish company in patent spat worth billions

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