Examiner Characteristics and Patent Office Outcomes

By Mark A. Lemley, Bhaven N. Sampat. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012

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What Is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery” (2019, background): “3 the underlying invention (Lemley and Sampat 2012, Sampat and Williams 2018).”
Patent citation data in social science research: Overview and best practices (2017, unknown): “Such heterogeneity translates into variations in outcomes of the examination process — such as in the volume and pattern of citations made.18 Lemley and Sampat (2012) demonstrate the presence of an examiner effect, in the sense that more experienced examiners cite less prior art.”
A Dynamic Network Measure of Technological Change (2017, background): “However, as Median examiner experience (log) increases, impact decreases, a finding that is consistent with work by Lemley and Sampat (2012).”