Canada adopted the First-to-File patent system in 1989, discarding the older First-toInvent one in the process. When the U.S. became the last country to do so in 2011, there was much controversy surrounding the switch to First-to-File. Given that the primary purpose of patents is to enable an inventor to reap the rewards of his invention and thereby encourage further inventive activity, this paper uses a difference-in-difference model to investigate the impact of both switches on innovation. Using multifactor productivity and R&D as indicators of innovation, I find that First-to-File is no more or less conducive to innovation than First-to-Invent. But given the cheaper administrative costs associated with a First-to-File system, I conclude ...
Republic Act 8293, also known as the Intellectual Property Code, took effect last January 1, 1998. I...
This Comment illustrates that moving to a first-to-file system of patent priority would greatly bene...
One way to proxy the outcome of the R&D process is to count the number of patents a firm has gen...
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, the most significant patent law reform effort in two generation...
The latest patent reform bill, the United States Patent Act of 2005, has rehashed one of the most ho...
The U.S. has been under pressure to abandon the unique first-to-invent feature of its patent law for...
The United States uses the first-to-invent patent system, which is a time-honored system not worth a...
The United States is the only country in the world that awards patents to the first person to invent...
This paper examines the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the new patent law or change that ...
With the America Invents Act of 2011, the U.S. changed its patent-issuing rule from first-toinvent t...
By the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), the U.S. patent system is experiencing the most signif...
United States patent law has traditionally been based on the proposition that the first inventor, no...
Studies of innovation have focused on the effects of patent laws on the number of innovations, but h...
Our article epitomizes systems thinking not only to identify possible unintended consequences of the...
Studies of innovation have focused on the effects of patent laws on the number of innovations but ig...
Republic Act 8293, also known as the Intellectual Property Code, took effect last January 1, 1998. I...
This Comment illustrates that moving to a first-to-file system of patent priority would greatly bene...
One way to proxy the outcome of the R&D process is to count the number of patents a firm has gen...
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, the most significant patent law reform effort in two generation...
The latest patent reform bill, the United States Patent Act of 2005, has rehashed one of the most ho...
The U.S. has been under pressure to abandon the unique first-to-invent feature of its patent law for...
The United States uses the first-to-invent patent system, which is a time-honored system not worth a...
The United States is the only country in the world that awards patents to the first person to invent...
This paper examines the perceived advantages and disadvantages of the new patent law or change that ...
With the America Invents Act of 2011, the U.S. changed its patent-issuing rule from first-toinvent t...
By the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), the U.S. patent system is experiencing the most signif...
United States patent law has traditionally been based on the proposition that the first inventor, no...
Studies of innovation have focused on the effects of patent laws on the number of innovations, but h...
Our article epitomizes systems thinking not only to identify possible unintended consequences of the...
Studies of innovation have focused on the effects of patent laws on the number of innovations but ig...
Republic Act 8293, also known as the Intellectual Property Code, took effect last January 1, 1998. I...
This Comment illustrates that moving to a first-to-file system of patent priority would greatly bene...
One way to proxy the outcome of the R&D process is to count the number of patents a firm has gen...