Patent scope is one of the important aspects in the debates over “patent quality.” The
purported decrease in patent quality over the last decade or two has supposedly led to …

While various studies in the fields of law and economics have analysed the business models
of patent aggregators and large non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the US, small NPEs …

Increased economic activity in low-Earth orbit (LEO) in the past century created debris fields
that impede current and future economic activities. We propose an economic model that …

Scrum methodologies that support cross-functional writing teams to develop polished
increments of writing instead of lengthy drafts of documents stand to improve productivity …

Artificial intelligence is an emerging technology with an average growth rate of 64.70% in
patent filings worldwide and 39.71% in Europe between 2015 and 2019, according to …

Recent scholarship has expanded the scope of analytical tools available to patent law
researchers. Examples include the use of textual analysis to determine the similarity of two …

Patent applications and lawsuits have tripled in the last thirty years. 1 In 2012 alone, over
5,000 patent suits were filed 2 and the number of patents granted increased by 11% for a …

On February 1, 2000, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) awarded
inventors William T. Dalebout and Steven Mott, along with their assignee ICON Health & …

This thesis contains three papers that contribute to the measurement and understanding of
patent quality at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), its determinants …

William Powell, like many young Americans coming of age in the 1970s, was radicalized by
the Vietnam War and his impending draft date. 1 As a teenager in New York City, Powell …