Patent examiner specialization
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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2018.08.003
Abstract: We study the matching of patent applications to examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The distribution of technology classes is more concentrated than would occur under random matching and F-tests reject the hypothesis… read more here.
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