Issue 3 – Special Issue: Innovation Economics III: Patents, Trademarks, and Technology Standards Datasets

Volume 27 JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
Fall 2018

Patent transactions in the marketplace: Lessons from the USPTO Patent Assignment Dataset

Stuart J. H. Graham, Alan C. Marco, and Amanda F. Myers
Transaction records involving U.S. patent documents have been maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for over 40 years, but have not been extensively used by scholars. To promote research uses, this article provides a comprehensive data description and presents stylized facts derived from the records.

Monetizing marks: Insights from the USPTO Trademark Assignment Dataset

Stuart J. H. Graham, Alan C. Marco, and Amanda F. Myers
This article describes the USPTO Trademark Assignment Dataset, a database of over 785,000 transactions recorded during 1952–2013 affecting almost 4.2 million trademark registrations and applications. We provide a comprehensive description and present key trends.

Unpacking 3GPP standards

Justus Baron and Kirti Gupta
This paper describes a new database with detailed information on standardization procedures at the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). 3GPP is the most relevant standard‐setting organization (SSO) in the field of mobile telecommunications.  The present database contains information on membership, meeting attendance, chairmanship, work items, contributions, and votes at 3GPP. These data shed light on the technical complexity of standard development and illustrate the importance of voluntary contributions from SSO members.

Technology Standards and Standard Setting Organizations: Introduction to the Searle Center Database

Justus Baron and Daniel F. Spulber
This paper describes the Searle Center Database on Technology Standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs). This database combines comprehensive information on technology standards, SSO membership, and SSO characteristics in a format designed for economic research. The paper describes how to combine these data with other new databases on standard‐related patents and standardization processes at 3GPP; and sketches avenues for empirical research.

Mapping standards to patents using declarations of standard‐essential patents

Justus Baron and Tim Pohlmann
This paper describes a new database of declared standard‐essential patents (SEPs), discusses methods for matching declared SEPs to specific standard documents, and presents empirical evidence on technology standards subject to declared SEPs. It discusses opportunities for new empirical research using databases of declared SEPs and data on patenting in standard‐related technology classes.

Constructing a Chinese patent database of listed firms in China: Descriptions, lessons, and insights

Zi-Lin He, Tony W. Tong, Yuchen Zhang, Wenlong He
Although China is now the largest patent filing country in the world, there is little firm-level research using Chinese patents due to difficulties in integrating Chinese patent data with firm data. To partially address this gap, we construct a Patent Database linking State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) patents to all listed firms and their subsidiaries in China, and we are making the database publicly available to the research community.

Making the patent scope consistent with the invention: Evidence from Japan

Yoshimi Okada, Yusuke Naito, and Sadao Nagaoka
It is a crucial function of patent examination to make the patent scope consistent with the contribution of the invention to the state of the art. We assess this function using newly developed data on the scope of Japanese patent applications and grants.

Micro Moments Database for cross‐country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes

Eric Bartelsman, Eva Hagsten, and Michael Polder
This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm‐level sources titled Micro Moments Database (MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked longitudinal firm‐level data in a large selection of EU national statistical offices.