Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Constantinos Chlomoudis, Theodore Styliadis
Summary: This paper investigates the innovative level and propensity of liner shipping companies using innovation frameworks and patent data. The findings suggest that certain liner carriers utilize patents to enhance their market position and achieve competitive advantage, with a focus on patented technologies that improve operational efficiency of vessels.
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Management
Janet Freilich, Sepehr Shahshahani
Summary: The impact of patents on follow-on innovation is a central concern of the patent system. This study examines the effects of patents on different types of follow-on innovation, distinguishing between activities that infringe patents and those that are indirectly influenced by patents. By replicating an important study using a disaggregated measure, the researchers find that the majority of scientific publications on patented genes do not constitute patent infringement. Furthermore, they find that gene patents which are not close to expiration stimulate noninfringing follow-on research, whereas the effect disappears for patents nearing expiration. This nuanced approach contributes to a better understanding of how patents influence innovation, reconciles conflicting findings in the literature, and informs policy reform.
Article
Business
Kenneth Guang-Lih Huang, Can Huang, Huijun Shen, Hao Mao
Summary: This study provides a systematic assessment of the value of China's inventions and finds that patents with higher R&D investments, invention patents, essential to standards patents, and belonging to patent pools have higher value. State-owned enterprises produce lower value patented inventions, while larger firms with intellectual property departments and actively engaging in patent litigation have inventions of higher value.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Claire Gregg, Michael J. Caine
Summary: The field of natural products chemistry is full of innovation that supports a wide range of industries. Patents are crucial for stimulating investment and driving innovation, and surprisingly, natural product-related inventions can be protected by patents. However, the patent process can be complex and recent developments in US case law have added further complexities that hamper innovation in this field. While efforts are being made to address these issues, we provide an overview of patent eligibility requirements in Australia, the US, and Europe, and discuss patentable aspects of natural products chemistry to help readers navigate the current complexities of seeking patent protection.
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Business
John P. Meyer
Summary: This study highlights the importance of social capital in driving innovation and retaining technical value. The author proposes that collaborative relationships among inventors contribute more positively to the value of innovation compared to organizational or human capital. Therefore, it is suggested to bring together inventors with narrow individual scientific expertise and rely on broad collaboration networks as a flexible source of diverse knowledge.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Rodrigo Ribeiro Alves Caiana, Cosme Silva Santos, Ronaldo Nascimento de Oliveira, Juliano Carlo Rufino Freitas
Summary: The use of 1H-1,2,3-triazoles has become an important scaffold in various technological sectors. This study conducted technological monitoring to understand the international scenario of 1H-1,2,3-triazoles based on filed patents, and examined the relationship between the number of patents and improved strategies for obtaining these compounds. The analysis revealed significant patent filings by prestigious multinational companies and identified the countries leading in patent registrations.
CURRENT ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Jacopo Staccioli, Maria Enrica Virgillito
Summary: Are intellectual property rights institutions meant to foster innovative activity or conversely to secure appropriation and profitability? Taking stock of a long-term empirical evidence on the pharmaceutical sector in the US, we can hardly support IPRs intended as an innovation rewarding institution. According to our analysis, pharma patents have constituted legal barriers to protect intellectual monopolies rather than an incentive and a reward to innovative efforts. Patenting strategies appear to be quite aggressive in extending knowledge borders and enlarging the space protected from the possibility of infringement. This is also witnessed by the fact that patent applications are very skewed in the covered trade names and patent thickness expands over time. Conversely, the ratio of patents protecting new drugs approved by the FDA which draw upon government-sponsored research - as such, a mark for quality - falls. Firm-level analysis on profitability confirms strong correlation, restricted to publicly traded pharmaceutical companies, between patent portfolio and profit margins.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
(2023)
Article
Business
Seungyeon Moon, Heesang Lee
Summary: This article introduces the concept of standard dynamics and explores the interplay between standards and the business ecosystem. By conducting survival analysis on standard revisions, the unique features of standard revision and managerial insights are revealed. The article also emphasizes the importance of standards for technology management in manufacturing firms.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Economics
Gaetan de Rassenfosse, Marco Grazzi, Daniele Moschella, Gabriele Pellegrino
Summary: We discover a previously unreported causal mechanism on how patent protection impacts exports. Using unique data on patenting and exporting activities at the product level for all French firms, our empirical analysis reveals a patent premium. We find that goods protected by patents in a specific destination country are associated with higher export quantities, ranging between four and eleven percent. By using rejected patent applications, which are not influenced by the firm, we confirm the causality of our findings. When firms lose patent protection, their exports collapse significantly.
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Management
Maya Durvasula, C. Scott Hemphill, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Bhaven Sampat, Heidi L. Williams
Summary: This paper introduces a digitized version of the FDA's Orange Book, which links approved small-molecule drugs with their protecting patents and provides information on regulatory exclusivity. The article discusses the coverage, challenges, and opportunities associated with using this resource for research purposes. Empirical validations confirm the completeness and accuracy of the Orange Book records. A specific use case of calculating legal exclusivity periods is presented to illustrate the decision-making involved in utilizing this tool for research.
Article
Clinical Neurology
David J. Dykeman, Olivia Schmitz, T. Forcht Dagi
Summary: This article is the first in a series that discusses strategies for protecting neurosurgical inventions and devices through patent law. Advances in neurosurgical techniques always go hand in hand with advances in neurosurgical technology. Continuous technological innovation has been a defining characteristic of the field. Intellectual property protection serves as a significant incentive for innovation. The protection of intellectual property related to neurosurgery raises several issues that warrant careful consideration for promoting neurosurgical innovation.
Article
Economics
Bernadette Power, Gavin C. Reid
Summary: This paper simultaneously estimates the supply and demand determinants of trademark adoption by start-ups using a partial observability econometric model. The results indicate that factors such as company size, incorporation, expenditure on R&D, copyrights, licensing out, and being in a high knowledge information sector are important in influencing the decision to adopt a trademark.
MANAGERIAL AND DECISION ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Sveinung Grimsby, Magnus Gulbrandsen
Summary: This paper aims to study the impact of public regulation on openness in the food industry, specifically focusing on how European novel food regulation affects external ties among novel food pioneers in terms of patents and inventors. The findings indicate that companies utilize patenting and novel food applications as part of their intellectual property rights strategy to prevent unintended spillovers and shape external collaborations. Practical implications suggest that food industry actors may employ property rights strategies to maintain openness and external collaboration.
BRITISH FOOD JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Management
Wendy A. Bradley, Julian Kolev
Summary: This study uses a quasi-experimental design to examine the impact of piracy on firm innovation and intellectual property portfolios. The findings suggest that piracy can stimulate increased R&D spending and the creation of copyrights, trademarks, and patents for large software firms. Additionally, firms with large patent portfolios tend to increase copyrights and trademarks in response to piracy. The study highlights that firms perceive piracy as a form of product-market competition, leading them to increase innovation efforts and protect their intellectual property.
Article
Management
Wen Wen, Chris Forman, Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa
Summary: Standards play a critical role in encouraging high-impact innovations by complementors in the fields of enabling technologies. They reduce technological and legal uncertainty and have a stronger effect on complementors in technology fields with more standards. The impact of standards varies depending on the downstream capabilities of developers and complementors.
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Communication
Marc Rysman, Timothy Simcoe
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY
(2011)
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Management
Marc Rysman, Timothy Simcoe, Yanfei Wang
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Economics
Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li, Marc Rysman, Christoph Walsh
Summary: This study estimates a structural model of bargaining between a branch of a large transnational gang and drug dealers, taking into account the variations in bargaining power among dealers with different characteristics. By exploiting supply shocks in the data, the study investigates the effectiveness of different enforcement strategies and finds that targeting drug dealers is more effective in reducing the quantity of drugs sold compared to targeting the gang's upstream supply chain.
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
(2022)
Article
Economics
Lesley Chiou, E. Nilay Kafali, Marc Rysman
INFORMATION ECONOMICS AND POLICY
(2020)
Article
Economics
Chenghuan Sean Chu, Marc Rysman
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2019)
Article
Economics
Marc Rysman
JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
(2019)
Article
Economics
Sergei Koulayev, Marc Rysman, Scott Schuh, Joanna Stavins
RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
(2016)
Article
Business, Finance
Ginger Zhe Jin, Marc Rysman
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
(2015)
Article
Economics
Marc Rysman, Julian Wright
REVIEW OF NETWORK ECONOMICS
(2014)
Article
Economics
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Marc Rysman
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2012)
Article
Economics
Aditi Mehta, Marc Rysman, Tim Simcoe
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS
(2010)
Article
Economics
Martino De Stefano, Marc Rysman
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
(2010)
Article
Economics
Marc Rysman
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
(2009)
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Business, Finance
Marc Rysman
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
(2007)