Applicant and examiner citations in U.S. patents: An overview and analysis

By Juan Alcácer, Michelle Gittelman, Bhaven N. Sampat. 2009

377 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Citations in the corpus

Patent citation data in social science research: Overview and best practices (2017, neutral): “Almeida and Kogut (1997) compare the patent citations of small and large semiconductor firms, and find that the citations made by small firms are more geographically localized. Hicks, Breitzman, Olivastro, and Hamilton (2001) show that U.S. companies’ citations to university patents exhibit geograph”
Innovation and Institutional Ownership (2013, neutral): “We weight our patent counts by future cites as is standard as a proxy for quality, but there may be concerns about this procedure ( e.g., Alcácer, Gittelman, and Sampat 2008 .”
Co-ownership of intellectual property: Exploring the value-appropriation and value-creation implications of co-patenting with different partners (2014, background): “…patent scope could determine the extent of patent protection and monopoly power and, thus, the economic value of 11 Alcacer and Gittelman (2006) and Alcacer et al. (2009) demonstrate that the central role of patent examiners has implications when conceiving patent citations as ‘knowledge flows’.”
A Dynamic Network Measure of Technological Change (2017, background): “Firms may have strategic reasons for omitting citations, and examiners may fail to add these during their reviews (Alcácer et al. 2009).”
Knowledge Maturity and the Scientific Value of Innovations (2017, methodology): “Second, we rely on patents granted by the USPTO to U.S. firms, hence further reducing the share of examiner citations, which is especially high for foreign firms (Alcacer et al., 2009).”
Examiner Characteristics and Patent Office Outcomes (2012, methodology): “Issued patents also list each of the prior art references considered during the prosecution process and, since 2001, indications of whether these references came from applicant disclosures or examiner searches (Alcacer & Gittleman, 2006; Sampat, 2010; Alcacer et al., 2009).”