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Writing and Drawing Inventions: Patents and Technology in France and the United States (18th-19th centuries)
Description (through texts, images, models or samples) played a central role in the patent regimes that emerged in the eighteenth century, first in England, later in the United States and in France. Description ensured that the contract—protection in excha ...
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 ...
EPFL2023Technology Protectionism and the Patent System: Evidence from China
Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri
Governments have strong incentives to allow their inventors to free ride on foreign technologies. They can achieve this result by discriminating against foreigners in the patent system-by refusing to grant foreigners a patent for their inventions. Internat ...
WILEY2022Natural Language Processing (NLP) driven categorisation and detection of discourse in historical US patents
Jérôme Baudry, Nicolas Christophe Chachereau, Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan, Prakhar Gupta
Patents have traditionally been used in the history of technology as an indication of the thinking process of the inventors, of the challenges or “reverse salients” they faced, or of the social groups influencing the construction of technology. More recent ...
2022Decentralising 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 INC2021Strategic 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 ...
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