Contents: Patents, Invention, and Economic Change Data.

Patents are generally issued by the government or the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a grant of property right to the inventor.. Over all there are three types of patents; there is the design patent which lets one patent a design if it is new, has originality, and is ornamental for a product or company. A utility patent is the.

Patents, Invention, and Economic Change: Data and Selected Essays, Zvi Griliches (1991). Population estimates for 1990 taken from U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Patents and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History by Petra Moser. Published in volume 27, issue 1, pages 23-44 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2013, Abstract: What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic history.

Recent research on the economics of patents is surveyed. The topics covered include theoretical and empirical evidence on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and what we know about the design of patent systems. We also look at what is known about some current policy areas, including software and business method.

This database has been used extensively in economic research and contains granted United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent data, including names of inventors, names of assignees, grant and application dates, technology classes, forward citations and a key matching patents to firms in the COMPUTSAT database. This key is.

Technological innovation is the plough that clears the way to economic growth and patents are the tool with which innovation is protected. It is the ability of countries to implement new ideas and develop new products. Patents and the legal systems surrounding them play a vibrant role in the productivity of a country. Opportunities for the.

A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling and importing an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. In most countries patent rights fall under civil law and the patent holder needs to.

Our hope is that researchers will make use of these data which, for the first time, enable detailed study of the complex dynamics between new filings, pendency, and abandonment and put into context recent trends in patenting activity, litigation, and technological change. The USPTO Historical Patent Data Files includes four datasets.

Patents, invention, and economic change data and selected essays: Preferences, uncertainty, and optimality: essays in honor of Leonid Hurwicz: Preferences, utility and demand: a Minnesota symposium: Social goals and social organization: essays in memory of Elisha Pazner: Studies in linear and non-linear programming.

MEASURING THE TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC VALUE OF PATENTS This chapter proposes a set of indicators that assess the economic and technological value of patented inventions, as well as the impact they might have on subsequent technological developments. The proposed measures can facilitate analysis both at the level of individual patents and at the aggregate patent portfolio level.The chapter.

Economic theorizing on the fundamental tradeoff in the design of optimal IP regime has flourished, and, the policy debate has been intense. By contrast, there is scant empirical evidence to validate the basic premise that IP rights have fostered or do foster invention and creative work, still less economic growth (Hall 2007; Hu and Jaffe 2007).

Essays on Innovation, Patents, and Econometrics by Mahdiyeh Entezarkheir A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in ful llment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Economics Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2010 c Mahdiyeh Entezarkheir 2010. I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any.