Presentations for the October 22, 2001 Conference on the Operation of the Patent System: Insights from New Research

John King, Patent Examination Procedures as Inputs to Patent Quality

John Walsh, Patenting of Research Tools and Biomedical Innovation

Rosemarie Ziedonis, "Who's Suing Whom over What?"

David Mowery, Intellectual Property Protection in the U.S. Software Industry

Jenny Lanjouw, Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights

Iain Cockburn, Are All Patent Examiners Equal?: The Impact of Examiner Characteristics on Patent Statistics & Litigation Outcomes

Emerson Tiller, Statistical Analysis of Internet Business Method Patents

Bronwyn Hall, Post-Issue Patent "Quality Controls": A Comparative Study of U.S. Patent Re-examinations and European Patent Oppositions