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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Heidi Ledford
Summary: The outcome of a US case may determine the extent of patent rights, impacting drug developers in a ripple effect.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Christopher B. Barrett
Summary: Research on vaccines, crop seeds, and other innovations for low- or middle-income countries can be incentivized by extending patent protection for profitable but non-essential inventions.
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Management
Cesare Righi, Davide Cannito, Theodor Vladasel
Summary: Despite the unclear purpose of continuing patent applications, they are increasingly important for firm innovation strategy and frequently debated in U.S. patent policy discussions. Continuing applications allow applicants to maintain the prosecution process and modify the patent scope after obtaining the initial patent. After reforms, there was a significant decrease in parent abandonment and increase in continuations per original patent. Continuing applications are more valuable, filed in uncertain contexts and for higher value technologies, by strategic applicants, and are influenced by the notice of allowance. This evidence supports the strategic use of continuing applications to refine claims over time.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Weidong Liu, Zhiwei Yang, Yan Cao, Jinchen Huo
Summary: This study explores the impact of patent activities on the stock market of listed companies, using wavelet transform to predict market trends based on patent and market activities, and finds that patent activities have a positive effect on market trend prediction for some manufacturing listed companies.
INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ye Wang
Summary: This article examines the impact and penetration of China's green patent system in three areas: patent application protection, patent licensing, and patent infringement relief. It finds that China is working to establish a green patent framework, but the specific details need further improvement.
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Business, Finance
Yang Hu, Yang (Greg) Hou, Les Oxley, Shaen Corbet
Summary: This paper examines the relationship between leading blockchain patent development and Bitcoin price volatility, finding that Bitcoin acts as a volatility receiver and identifying companies like Microsoft, Mastercard, Intel and Visa as major contributors to volatility spillovers in the Bitcoin market. The study also points out that the spillover effects towards Bitcoin markets increase from the short-term to the long-term, suggesting the influence of large corporations on cryptocurrency prices through technological announcements.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS INSTITUTIONS & MONEY
(2021)
Article
Management
Riccardo Cappelli, Marco Corsino, Keld Laursen, Salvatore Torrisi
Summary: Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, this study examines the impact of technological competition on a firm's patenting strategy. It suggests that technological competition reduces the likelihood of the traditional strategy of protecting focal innovations and increases the likelihood of a play strategy. However, when the competition is focused on the firm's core technology, it is more likely to adopt a fence strategy. The study provides empirical evidence based on a large-scale survey of European patent applications.
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Business
Mukund Chari, H. Kevin Steensma, Charles Connaughton, Ralph Heidl
Summary: The study shows that as PAEs become more active in a certain patent class, inventors who lack commercialization capabilities are more likely to start patenting and increase their production rate of patented inventions in that class. However, as PAEs become more active in a specific patent class, patented inventions produced by inventors without commercialization capabilities tend to be more incremental in nature compared to those produced by larger firms.
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2022)
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Economics
Fan Duan, Yifei Li, Tenglong Zhong
Summary: This paper investigates how international cooperation for patent examination using Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreements has affected the quality of firms' exports. Taking the PPH agreements signed between China and the export destinations as a quasi-natural experiment, we found that international cooperation for patent examination caused firms to increase export quality to PPH partners in patent-intensive industries to a greater extent. Our findings demonstrate that international patent cooperation has played an important role in promoting international trade quality.
CHINA & WORLD ECONOMY
(2023)
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Economics
Deepak Hegde, Kyle Herkenhoff, Chenqi Zhu
Summary: We measure the impact of patent publication on innovation by studying the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA), which shortened the time for public disclosure of US patents by approximately 1.5 years. By comparing US patents subject to AIPA with European patents that were not, we find that post-AIPA, US patents receive more and faster follow-on citations, indicating increased technology diffusion. We also observe changes in technological overlap and a decrease in duplicative R&D.
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2023)
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Business
Xiaoyang Zhao, Justin Tan, Shuxin Zhong
Summary: This study explores how firms in China seek legal resources and their impact on patenting performance in the weak intellectual property regime. External legal resources have both positive and negative effects on patenting performance, with the level of external patent law expertise interacting with R&D investment. Institutional pressure and support also moderate this relationship.
JOURNAL OF INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE
(2022)
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Engineering, Industrial
Ling Wang, Yujia Zhang, Yushan Yan
Summary: This study investigates the impact of organizational routines, certified by the Intellectual Property Rights Management Standard (IPRMS), on the strategic choices of offensive patent litigation. The findings show that organizational routines have a positive influence on the choice of offensive patent litigation, with firm size weakening the effect and state ownership reinforcing it.
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Economics
Lluis Gimeno-Fabra, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
Summary: This paper introduces a new methodology for characterizing and comparing the examination practices of patent offices, with a focus on search completeness, certainty, speed, and stringency. Testing the methodology on a sample of EPO, JPO, and USPTO members reveals significant differences across offices in these areas, indicating varying levels of scrutiny.
ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY
(2021)
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Management
Kejia Zhu, Shavin Malhotra, Yaohan Li
Summary: This study examines the impact of technological diversity of patent applications on the duration of the patent examination process and proposes a U-shaped relationship between these two variables. The findings support the hypothesized U-shaped relationship and suggest that patent agency and inventor team size may have moderating effects on this relationship. The implications of these results are discussed in the study.
Review
Oncology
Muhammad Joan Ailia, Nishant Thakur, Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar, Chan Kwon Jung, Kwangil Yim, Yosep Chong
Summary: The integration of digital pathology with artificial intelligence enables faster, more accurate, and thorough diagnoses, leading to more precise personalized treatment. In the past five years, there has been an increasing trend in patent filings, primarily focusing on the digitization of pathological images and AI technologies that support the vital role of pathologists.
