🤔 A country with 100,000 #patent applications is not necessarily twice as innovative as one with 50,000. Patent #statistics look precise. Their meaning is much messier. New on #ThePatentist: “Counting patents, miscounting #innovation” open.substack.com/pub/thepaten...

Counting patents, miscounting innovation

For those who draft, examine, litigate, or value patents, counting patents to measure innovation can sound like a terrible idea.

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🤖 Can AI be an inventor? That’s the legal question. The #economic question is admittedly harder: if AI makes invention cheaper and scalable, should #patents still protect machine-generated inventions? We explore this question in #ThePatentist www.thepatentist.com/p/patents-af...

💸 Patent fees are not just administrative charges. They shape who enters the patent system, how applications are drafted and prosecuted, and when unused rights fall into the public domain. My new article on The Patentist: open.substack.com/pub/thepaten... #innovation #IP #patent

The hidden policy power of patent fees

From the USPTO’s value-tax debate to the EPO’s micro-entity discounts, patent-office fees are the most visible and controllable price signals in the patent system.

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#Standards make compatibility mandatory. That changes patent #licensing. 👉 New on The #Patentist: Part II on SEPs/FRAND: hold-up vs hold-out, injunction leverage, royalty stacking, and why patent pools can help. www.thepatentist.com/p/when-stand...

#Standards (Wi-Fi, 5G…) make products interoperable—but they can also create lock-in. That’s where #SEP & #FRAND come in: bargaining shifts from ex-ante competition to ex-post leverage. 👉 New on The Patentist www.thepatentist.com/p/when-stand... #patents #innovation #thepatentist

🤓 New on The Patentist: Patent rights and cumulative innovation: Part II When judges randomly invalidate patents, libraries open, or inventions are kept secret 🤐, what really happens to follow-on innovation? We dig into the empirical literature. www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-rig...

🔎 The #nationaltreatment principle requires that foreign patentees receive the same legal treatment as domestic ones. But is that the case? 🤔 Not really. Read what the evidence says on the new post on #ThePatentist: www.thepatentist.com/p/national-t...

📢 I am hiring! 🎓 Looking for a bright Ph.D. student in the economics of innovation. Anyone with a quantitative background is welcome to apply. ➡️ Details at www.epfl.ch/labs/stip/op...

🔎 Patent citations are everywhere in innovation research. But do they really trace how ideas spill over between inventors—or are we mistaking legal paperwork for knowledge flows? 🧐 New on #ThePatentist: www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-cit... #patents #innovation #spillovers

Patent citations: Tracing spillovers or chasing shadows?

Measuring how ideas move across firms and regions

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🔎 Do more #patent citations mean better inventions? A widely used metric in #innovation studies—but not always well understood. My new post on #ThePatentist reviews the evidence, from expert ratings and market prices to auction data and hybrid corn yields. 👉 www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-cit...

Do more citations mean better patents?

What patent citations really measure

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🗞️ International trade and intellectual property The latest post on #ThePatentist discusses how #IPRs shape global commerce. Spoiler: #trade is not only about #tariffs 😉 www.thepatentist.com/p/internatio... #patent #innovation

International Trade and Intellectual Property

Let's talk about something other than tariffs

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🔍 The “Strength” of Patent Systems The latest post on #ThePatentist dives into indices of the strength of #patent systems and discusses “twin patent” studies that reveal who's really setting the highest bar. Spoiler: Stronger ≠ better. open.substack.com/pub/thepaten...

The “strength” of patent systems

Stronger does not necessarily mean better

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📢 The next #REGIS seminar will occur this Friday, May 9, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET. 🤓 Jing Zhao (Mälardalen University 🇸🇪) will present the paper by Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, and Lindsey Raymond, titled "Generative AI at Work," published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025).