The Hoover Institution Working Group on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Prosperity (Hoover IP²) is reviewing the premises of the US patent system and addressing questions of scope, specification, duration, and economic impact of that system.

battle over patents

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The Battle over Patents gets it right. Bringing together thoroughly researched essays from prominent historians and social scientists, this volume traces the long and contentious history of patents and examines how they have worked in practice. Editors Stephen H. Haber and Naomi R. Lamoreaux show that patent systems are the result of contending interests at different points in production chains battling over economic surplus. 

working papers

WORKING PAPERS

A unique dataset of 24 thousand U.S. finance patents granted over the last two decades was developed to explore the evolution and production of financial innovation. Machine learning was used to identify the financial patents and extensively audit the results to ensure their reasonableness.

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