🤖 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
#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...
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🎓 Looking for a bright Ph.D. student in the economics of innovation. Anyone with a quantitative background is welcome to apply.
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🔎 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
🔎 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...
🗞️ 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
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.
