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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 ...

2023

Economic Effect of Patents and the Patent System: Insights from Linked Patent-Product Data

George Abi Younes

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 ...

EPFL2023

Patents, War and Peace. The resilience of the international patent order through the First World War

Nicolas Christophe Chachereau

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 ...

2023

International mobility of inventors and innovation: Empirical evidence from the collapse of the Soviet Union

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Gabriele Pellegrino

This paper assesses the extent to which the international migration of inventors affects innovation in the receiving country. Drawing on a novel database that maps the migratory patterns of inventors, we exploit the end of the Soviet Union and the conseque ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Technology 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 ...

WILEY2022

Strategic Citation: A Reassessment

Kenneth Younge, Jeffrey Kuhn

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 ...

2021

Essays on the Economics of Innovation: Incentives, Diffusion, and Disparity

Ling Zhou

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 pro ...

EPFL2021

Decentralising 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 INC2021

Buyers' role in innovation procurement: Evidence from US military R&D contracts

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

This study provides the first quantification of buyers' role in the outcome of R&D procurement contracts. We combine together four data sources on US federal R&D contracts, follow-on patented inventions, federal public workforce characteristics, and percep ...

WILEY2021

Imputation of missing information in worldwide patent data

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

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 ...

2021

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