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AI-GENERATED INVENTIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PATENT SYSTEM

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This symposium Article discusses issues raised for patent processes and policy created by inventions generated by artificial intelligence ("AI"). The Article begins by examining the normative desirability of allowing patents on AI-generated inventions. Whi ...

2023

Are Foreigners Treated Equally under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement?

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, administered by the World Trade Organization, ensures the smooth functioning of the international patent system. It promises among other things that local and foreign firms are treated in ...

UNIV CHICAGO PRESS2019

Getting Started with PATSTAT Register

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This article provides a technical introduction to the PATSTAT Register database, which contains bibliographical, procedural and legal status data on patent applications handled by the European Patent Office. It presents eight MySQL queries that cover some ...

Wiley2017

Discrimination against foreigners in the U.S. patent system

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Inventions of foreign origin are about ten percentage points less likely to be granted a U.S. patent than domestic inventions. An empirical analysis of 1.5 million U.S. patent applications identifies three systematic differences between foreign and domesti ...

2020

Do patents enable disclosure? Evidence from the invention secrecy act

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The analysis exploits the Invention Secrecy Act, which grants the U.S. Commissioner for Patents the right to prevent the disclosure of new inventions that represent a threat to national security. Using a two-level matching approach, we document a negative ...

2024

Decentralising the patent system

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Kyle William Higham

Modern patent systems are slow, inefficient, expensive, and may result in outcomes that actively harm technological progress. This paper proposes a substantive re-think of these systems and lays a foundation upon which practical solutions can be built. Man ...

ELSEVIER INC2021

The effects of war on Ukrainian research

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Wolf-Hendrik Peter Uhlbach

The ongoing war in Ukraine has profoundly impacted the Ukrainian scientific community. Numerous researchers have either emigrated or transitioned to alternate professions. For those who remain in research, the destruction of civil infrastructure and psycho ...

Springernature2023

Commercialization Strategy and IPO Underpricing

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

This paper studies the interplay between two defining features of technology-based firms: licensing as a commercialization strategy and the reliance on equity financing. Within the context of an IPO, we argue that the technology commercialization strategy ...

Elsevier2017

3. Patent Citation Data in Social Science Research: Overview and Best Practices

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The last 2 decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of patent citation data in social science research. Facilitated by digitization of the patent data and increasing computing power, a community of practice has grown up that has developed meth ...

Wiley2017

Quality of Higher Education Systems

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

Springer2020

Geocoding of worldwide patent data

Jan Wojciech Kozak, Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The dataset provides geographic coordinates for inventor and applicant locations in 18.8 million patent documents spanning over more than 30 years. The geocoded data are further allocated to the corresponding countries, regions and cities. When the address ...

2019

Are patent fees effective at weeding out low-quality patents?

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

2018

Is The Patent System An Even Playing Field? The Effect Of Patent Attorney Firms

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse

The patent system underpins the business model of some of the fastest-growing companies. Used appropriately, it should support frontier technologies and nurture new firms. Used perniciously, it can stifle innovation and protect established technological be ...

WILEY2023

COVID-19 : Insights from innovation economists

Dominique Foray, Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Gabriele Pellegrino, Charles Chadi Ayoubi, Omar Ballester Gonzalez, Ling Zhou, George Abi Younes, Gabriele Cristelli, Matthias David van den Heuvel

The present document provides the take of innovation economists on the COVID-19 pandemic. It targets the general public and focuses on questions related to the Science, Technology, and Innovation ecosystem. It provides a reading of current real-world devel ...

2020