The Paper Trail of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Interferences
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DOI: 10.1257/app.20180017
Abstract: We show evidence of localized knowledge spillovers using a new database of US patent interferences terminated between 1998 and 2014. Interferences resulted when two or more independent parties submitted identical claims of invention nearly simultaneously.… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge spillovers; patent interferences; paper trail; knowledge ... See more keywords