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Selected Articles & Studies
2024 Patent Trends2024 has the potential to change and shape patent law and policy in a number of exciting ways. This article takes a look at Patent Trends.
Do patent pledges accelerate innovation? - 2023This paper estimates the effect of patent pledges, commitments made voluntarily by patent holders to limit the enforcement of their patents, on follow-on inventions. Patent pledges have been gaining popularity in recent years thanks to the highly visible pledges of companies such as Google and Tesla.
Journal articles and conference proceedingsThe Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) publishes research findings from its team of economists and their collaborators in peer-reviewed economic journals and in law journals.
A Look Ahead: Key Intellectual Property Legal Topics in 2024 -2024What should in-house counsel be on the lookout for in 2024? As we begin a new year, our attorneys look ahead at intellectual property topics they expect will be trending in 2024. They cover areas including life sciences, litigation, post-grant proceedings, artificial intelligence, design patents, and trademarks.
Patent Cases To Watch In 2024In this article for Law360, partners Jason Wilcox and Ellisen Turner discussed several patent cases to look out for in 2024 and their potential impact on the IP world.
Private and social functions of patents: Innovation, markets, and new firms - 2023This article provides a review of the private and social functions of patents using data and evidence from the economic and management literature. While patents provide incentives to invent by providing private protection to appropriate the returns on inventions, they also have broader effects.
A Researcher's Guide to PatentsPatents confer negative rights, i.e. the right to exclude the making, selling, or using of the claimed subject matter. Subject matter disclosed in a patent but not expressly and precisely claimed is in the public domain. Patents apply only in the country that issues the patent. MTAs often have patent clauses expressing the expectations of the donor and recipient on exclusivity or licenses under patents for new, useful, and patentable inventions made using the donated material.
USPTO News and updatesThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) latest news and updates
Variation in patent impact by organization type: An investigation of government, university, and corporate patentsThis article investigates whether patents assigned to different types of organizations—firms, universities, and government research agencies—vary with regards to their effect on subsequent technological change. We find the organization type to which a patent is assigned to have significant and robust effects on the number of times a patent is cited and its generality. More precisely, we find that university patents are cited more often than corporate patents and that both university and government patents are more general than corporate ones.
Journals
World Patent InformationOnline ISSN: 1874-690X | Print ISSN: 0172-2190 World Patent Information aims to encompass the world of IP information; and focus the journal towards IPRs for industrially applicable innovations; and their management, analysis; big data analysis; policy; education. IPRs - patents, utility models; copyright, trademarks, registered design; design rights; trade secrets; database rights; traditional knowledge; indigenous knowledge; geographical indications may all be considered.
Columbia Law ReviewThe Columbia Law Review is one of the world’s leading publications of legal scholarship. Founded in 1901, the Review is an independent nonprofit corporation that produces a law journal edited and published entirely by students at Columbia Law School. It is one of a handful of student-edited law journals in the nation that publish eight issues a year.
Research PolicyPrint ISSN: 0048-7333 | Online ISSN: 1873-7625 Research Policy (RP) is a multi-disciplinary journal devoted to analyzing, understanding and effectively responding to the economic, policy, management, organizational, environmental and other challenges posed by innovation, technology, R&D and science.
TechovationPrint ISSN: 0166-4972 | Online ISSN: 1879-2383 his interdisciplinary journal encompasses all facets of technological innovation. Innovation is considered from both the perspectives of process and product, social innovations (regulation and policy as well as creation of non-economic benefit), conceptualization of a new technology-based product or process through commercial utilization. Topics include technological trends and breakthroughs; capital for new product development and commercialization; displacement of existing products, management of technology-intense entrepreneurial ventures; management of technological innovation in medium-sized and large organizations; appropriate organizational structures and practices; investment strategies related to new science-based or technology-based enterprises; the technological innovator as an entrepreneur, team-member, manager or employee; technology transfer to, from and between developing countries; technological innovation in all forms of: enterprise, political and economic systems.
Science and Public PolicyPrint ISSN: 0302-3427 | Online ISSN: 1471-5430 Science and Public Policy is a leading international journal on public policies for science, technology and innovation. It covers all types of science and technology in both developed and developing countries.
Technological Forecasting and Social ChangePrint ISSN: 0040-1625 | Online ISSN: 1873-5509 A major forum for those wishing to deal directly with the methodology and practice of technological forecasting and future studies as planning tools as they interrelate social, environmental and technological factors.
Patent Lawyer MagazineAn intellectual property law publication focused solely on patent law. All the latest news updates published weekly along with a bi-monthly magazine.
