Patents
How Stronger Non-Compete Agreements Slow Innovation
In new research exploiting state-level changes in non-compete enforceability, Kate Reinmuth and Emma Rockall find that stronger non-competes have historically reduced innovation in the United States. These declines are driven by sharp drops in inventor mobility and knowledge spillovers, especially in young, high-growth sectors.
Patent Trolls Are Harming Innovation. Congress Can Help
Patent trolls are amassing portfolios of patents, not to produce goods but to shake down innovative firms that use these technologies as inputs for settlement fees. The Advancing America’s Interest Act is an important step to protecting American innovators and the United States economy, writes Roslyn Layton.
Are Intellectual Property Rights Neoliberal? Yes and No
Today’s global IP regime is often described by critical scholars bluntly as “neoliberal.” But in fact, the topic of intellectual property rights has been...
Why We Need to Stop Relying On Patents to Measure Innovation
Patent databases may be a smoke screen that hides the true issues, problems, and dynamics of innovation behind the illusion that innovation is booming—and...
Are “Patent Trolls” Stick-Up Artists or Just Benign Middlemen?
A new study explores the dual effect that non-practicing entities, commonly known as patent trolls, have on innovation and the market of ideas.
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