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  • 17 Jan 2025
  • News

Charting Patent Hunters: The Companies Buying Forgotten (But Valuable) Inventions

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Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Geography
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Henderson, Rebecca M., Adam Jaffe, and Manuel Trajtenberg. "Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations." Quarterly Journal of Economics 108, no. 3 (August 1993): 578–598. (Reprinted in Recent Developments in Growth Theory, edited by Daron Acemoglu, Cheltenham U.K: Elgar, 2004.)
  • August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
  • Background Note

Note on Comparative Treatment of Business Method and Software Patents in the United States and European Union

By: Robert C. Pozen and Felicia Ellsworth
This note analyses and compares the legal definitions and practical applications of Business Method and Software Patents in the United States and European Union. View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Patents; Business Processes; United States; European Union
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Pozen, Robert C., and Felicia Ellsworth. "Note on Comparative Treatment of Business Method and Software Patents in the United States and European Union." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-023, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
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Patent search: The use of component in Espacenet and Patentscope databases

How can I quickly pinpoint needed info in patent documents displayed in Espacenet and Patentscope databases? Patent information displayed in Espacenet and Patentscope via the Web is breakdown into... View Details
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Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment: Comment

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg
Keywords: Patents; Knowledge; Information
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Henderson, Rebecca M., Adam Jaffe, and Manuel Trajtenberg. "Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment: Comment." American Economic Review 95, no. 1 (March 2005): 416–464.
  • May 2004
  • Article

Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology: Evidence from Historical Patent Citations

By: Tom Nicholas and Petra Moser
Keywords: Energy; Information Technology; Information; Patents
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Nicholas, Tom, and Petra Moser. "Was Electricity a General Purpose Technology: Evidence from Historical Patent Citations." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 94, no. 2 (May 2004).
  • 22 Apr 2015
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Big data is key to disrupting the U.S. patent industry

  • spring 2001
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Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories

By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner
Keywords: Research and Development; Law; Patents; Information Technology; Communication
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Jaffe, Adam, and Josh Lerner. "Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories." RAND Journal of Economics 32, no. 1 (spring 2001): 167–198.
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II

By: Daniel P. Gross
This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which over 11,000 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders that halted examination and prohibited inventors from disclosing their inventions or filing in foreign... View Details
Keywords: Invention Secrecy; Invention Disclosure; Trade Secrecy; Secrecy Orders; Cummulative Innovation; Wold War 2; Patents; National Security; History; Innovation and Invention; Outcome or Result; Intellectual Property; Policy; Commercialization; United States
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Gross, Daniel P. "The Consequences of Invention Secrecy: Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-090, May 2019. (Revised May 2019. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25545, May 2019)
  • June 18, 2021
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Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent

By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect what is invented. Using text analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents filed from 1976 through 2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Gender Bias; Health; Innovation and Invention; Research; Patents; Gender; Prejudice and Bias
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Koning, Rembrand, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent." Science 372, no. 6548 (June 18, 2021): 1345–1348.
  • 1 Jan 1999
  • Conference Presentation

Technological Evolution as a Complex Adaptive System: Evidence from Patent Data

Keywords: Information Technology; Complexity; Patents
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Fleming, L., and O. Sorenson. "Technological Evolution as a Complex Adaptive System: Evidence from Patent Data." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 1, 1999.

    Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It

    The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details

    • 28 Apr 2016
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    New Study Exposes the Growing Problem of Patent Aggregators and Aggregators’ Negative Impact on Innovation in the United States

    • 18 Jun 2021
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    Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women’s health, but few women get to invent

    • 03 Dec 2020
    • News

    Microsoft Patents New Software that Can Detect When Employees are Lazy

    • 19 May 2016
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    Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

    average value. (Contests) allow me to find the extreme value.” Curbing the patent trolls Another research presentation focused on the adverse effects around patent litigation, which has increased sharply in... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
    • 20 Aug 2014
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    Yes, patent trolls go out of their way to target rich companies

    • October 2013 (Revised January 2014)
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    Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (B)

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Lauren Barley
    It was January 2013, and Fred Khosravi, chairman of the board of AccessClosure Inc., wondered what the new year had in store for him and AccessClosure, the company he founded in late 2002. Khosravi was cautiously optimistic—the Mountain View, California-based medical... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Devices; Vascular Closure Device; Patent Litigation; Patenting; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; Biotech; Technological Innovation; Patents; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry; United States; California
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    Hamermesh, Richard G., and Lauren Barley. "Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 814-038, October 2013. (Revised January 2014.)
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent

    By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
    Has the increase in female medical researchers led to more medical advances for women? In this paper, we investigate if the gender of inventors shapes their types of inventions. Using data on the universe of U.S. biomedical patents, we find that patents with women... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Biomedical Research; Innovation and Invention; Diversity; Gender; Research; Health; United States
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    Koning, Rembrand, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent." Working Paper. (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-124, June 2019; SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3401889, June 2019.)
    • 30 Nov 2007
    • Conference Presentation

    The Ethnic Composition of US Inventors: Evidence Building from Ethnic Names in US Patents

    By: William R. Kerr
    Keywords: Ethnicity; Innovation and Invention; Patents; United States
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    Kerr, William R. "The Ethnic Composition of US Inventors: Evidence Building from Ethnic Names in US Patents." Paper presented at the NBER Science & Engineering Workforce Project, November 30, 2007.
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