What is behind the recent surge in paten
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Samuel Kortum; Josh Lerner
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We investigate the cause of an unprecedented surge of US patenting over the past decade. Conventional wisdom points to the establishment of the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit by Congress in 1982. We examine whether this institutional change, which has benefited patent holders, explains the