Protecting Intellectual Property Rights: Are Small Firms Handicapped?*

By J. Lanjouw, Mark Schankerman. Journal law and economy, 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics (2008, background): “…2005), survey measures of subjective value (Harhoff et al. 1999, 2003a), the number of countries in which the patentee files (Putnam 1996, Lanjouw and Schankerman 2004a), whether the patent is renewed (Harhoff et al. 2003b, Lanjouw and Schankerman 2004a), and firm market value (Hall et al. 2005).”
Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, and Platform Technologies (2009, background): “The litigation rates in our control sample are comparable to those reported by Lanjouw and Schankerman (2004) for electronics and computing.”
Patent Management in Entrepreneurial SMEs: A Literature Review and an Empirical Study of Innovation Appropriation, Patent Propensity, and Motives (2013, neutral): “In addition, litigation risks and threats are higher for SMEs than for large firms (Lanjouw and Schankerman, 2004), and the patent system has accordingly been argued not to function properly for SMEs (Kingston, 2004).”
Innovation and Family Ownership: Empirical Evidence from India (2014, methodology): “To capture this effect, we followed the study of Lanjouw and Schankerman (2004) and measured innovation productivity by the number of patents per unit of R&D spending.”
Reputations for toughness in patent enforcement: implications for knowledge spillovers via inventor mobility (2009, positive): “Our study also provides new evidence on how the high costs associated with IP litigation can differentially affect the behavior of entrepreneurial and established firms, thus contributing to prior research on this important topic (Lerner, 1995; Lanjouw and Lerner, 2001; Lanjouw and Schankerman, 2001”
SME innovation, exporting and growth: A review of existing evidence (2015, background): “It has also been suggested that as individual SMEs typically have fewer patents, and so on, they may be less able to adopt a technology-swapping mechanism to defend their IP rights than larger companies with a wider patent portfolio (Lanjouw and Schankerman, 2003).”
Why are some regions more innovative than others? The role of small firms in the presence of large labs (2014, background): “This idea is also discussed in Lerner (2012), who argues that economists have widely accepted the idea that high income tax rates spur corporate employees to found companies.”
Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - the Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity (2013, positive): “Additional patents also reduce marginal legal costs as the share of patents grows: firms with a large share of patents on a technological opportunity will need to cross-license or litigate less (Lanjouw and Schankerman, 2004).”