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Measuring the effect of patenting on industry R&D is an age old pursuit in innovation economics. It's hard. The latest interesting a...

It's an age-old question that we've blogged about here before - what role do patents have on firm value? And is any effect due to s...

In Recalibrating Patent Venue , Colleen Chien and I did a nationwide study of forum shopping in patent cases (shocker - everybody did it, an...

Just this morning, an interesting new literature review came to my mailbox via SSRN. In Is There a Role for Patents in the Financing of New ...

I'm a big fan of Peter Lee's work, and I'm a big fan of theory of the firm work. Imagine my joy upon seeing Prof. Lee's new ...

Michael's post this morning about how patent citation data has changed over time reminded me of a nice review of the patent citation li...

Patent citations are one of the coins of the economic analysis realm. Many studies have used which patents cite which others to determine va...

Do patents help startups? I've debated this question many times over the years, and no one seems to have a definitive answer. My own res...

This is a simple, but important question. Do venture capitalists value patents? You would think the answer is an easy yes based on survey da...

At the recent American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) meeting at Columbia, I provided some comments on Intellectual Property Contracts...

Gaétan de Rassenfosse & Adam B. Jaffe have posted Are Patent Fees Effective at Weeding out Low-quality Patents? (sorry, behind NBER pay...

Michael Risch previously posted on the study by Paul Heald, Kris Erickson, and Martin Kretschmer on the value of public domain photographs ...

Paul Heald (Illinois), Martin Kretschmer, and Kris Erickson (both Univ. of Glasgow) have posted The Valuation of Unprotected Works: A Case S...

Next up in my CELS IP recap : David Abrams (Penn) presented Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Strategic Disruption? (with...

"What can justify another paper about patent quality?" ask Ronald Mann (Columbia Law) and Marian Underweiser (IBM) at the beginn...

The "patent ecosystem" is defined by the complex interactions between two seemingly disparate paradigms—the defensive amassing of ...

Michael Risch (Villanova Law) has posted two new articles on SSRN that are related to recent Written Description posts. The first is Patent...

Do repeat patent plaintiffs have stronger patents? Are they more likely to settle to prevent these patents from being invalidated? John Alli...

Are there problems with the way IP is priced? Professors Christopher Buccafusco (Chicago-Kent) and Christopher Sprigman (Virginia) provide...