We study the matching of patent applications to examiners at the US Patent and Trademark
Office. The distribution of technology classes is more concentrated than would occur under …

Research Summary: How does the organization of patenting activity affect a firm's patenting
outcomes? We investigate how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope …

Many standard setting organizations (SSOs) require participants to disclose patents that
might be infringed by implementing a proposed standard, and commit to license their …

Patent scope is central to the sale of ideas, which can spur economic growth and provide
significant gains from trade. Awarding an inventor a patent on a new idea partially solves a …

For a patent system to be socially efficient, it should only grant patents to inventions that are
non-obvious. We analyse patent examination decisions at the US Patent Office (with …

This dissertation contains three studies on the patenting process and standard essential
patents. The first study analyzes the matching of patent applications to examiners at the US …