Publications de Kyle William Higham

Scientific rewards for biomedical specialization are large and persistent

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Orion B Penner, Kyle William Higham

Background While specialization plays an essential role in how scientific research is pursued, we understand little about its effects on a researcher's impact and career. In particular, the extent to which one specializes within their chosen fields likely ...

BMC2022

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

Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Kyle William Higham

The quality of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share this heterogeneous ...

ELSEVIER2021

Wanted: A standard for virtual patent marking

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Kyle William Higham

Patent marking is used by patentees to provide a form of notice to the public about the existence of a patent and can increase damages awarded in cases of infringement. Historically, marking is done by listing the associated patents on the product they cov ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2020

Ex-ante measure of patent quality reveals intrinsic fitness for citation-network growth

Kyle William Higham

We have constructed a fitness parameter, characterizing the intrinsic attractiveness for patents to be cited, from attributes of the associated inventions known at the time a patent is granted. This exogenously obtained fitness is shown to determine the te ...

2019