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2023Economic Effect of Patents and the Patent System: Insights from Linked Patent-Product Data
This thesis investigates the economic effect of patents and the patent system through the lens of patent commercialisation. The thesis is composed of four chapters, where each chapter is an independent scientific paper. In the first chapter, we present a n ...
EPFL2023Patents, War and Peace. The resilience of the international patent order through the First World War
By the end of the 19th century, an international order had emerged for patents, allowing business actors to use patents in many countries concurrently, and thus supporting a new phase in the development of industrial capitalism. Centered on Europe in spite ...
2023Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity
As an important policy instrument for guiding innovation, the patent system involves a long-standing tension between creating economic rewards for the original innovators and stifling subsequent R&D activities. The availability of new data allows us to pr ...
EPFL2021Computationally-guided tuning of ligand sensitivity in a GPCR-based sensor
Patrick Daniel Barth, Dániel Kéri
Genetically-encoded fluorescent sensors for neuromodulators are increasingly used molecular tools in neuroscience. However, these protein-based biosensors are often limited by the sensitivity of the protein scaffold towards endogenous ligands. Here, we exp ...
2021Strategic Citation: A Reassessment
The United States patent system is unique in that it requires applicants to cite documents they know to be relevant to the examination of their patent applications. Lampe (2012) presents evidence that applicants strategically withhold 21-33% of relevant ci ...
2021Decentralising the patent system
Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Kyle William Higham
Modern patent systems are slow, inefficient, expensive, and may result in outcomes that actively harm technological progress. This paper proposes a substantive re-think of these systems and lays a foundation upon which practical solutions can be built. Man ...
ELSEVIER INC2021Imputation of missing information in worldwide patent data
We present a general method for imputing missing information in the Worldwide Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) and make the resulting datasets publicly available. The PATSTAT database is the de facto standard for academic research using patent data. C ...
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