Untangling the Economics of Patent Thickets

Academic Paper
Title	Patent Thicket Literature Review
Author	Ed Egan, David Teece
RAs	Lauren Bass
Status	Working paper
© edegan.com, 2016

The Paper

Latest version is:

\coauthoredprojects\Egan and Teece\McN-PatentThicket-Egan-092215.pdf

This file is posted at http://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/untangling-patent-thicket-literature

Codification

The coding for the variables is here: PTLR_Codification

Test Run

Example BibTeX:

@article{BibTeXKeyGoesHere,
  title={},
  author={},
  journal={},
  year={},
  abstract={},
  discipline={},
  research_type={},
  industry={},
  thicket_stance={},
  thicket_stance_extract={},
  thicket_def={},
  thicket_def_extract={},  
  tags={},
  filename={}
}

Files

Pick 5 files at random from:

Dropbox\coauthoredprojects\Egan and Teece\CandidatePapers

List them here:

• Cockburn MacGarvie (2006) - Entry And Patenting In The Software Industry.pdf
• Murray Stern (2007) - Do formal intellectual property rights hinder the free flow of scientific knowledge?: An empirical test of the anti-commons hypothesis
• ...
• ...
• ...

Do the following:

• Create a new text file in the dropbox. Note where the file is saved!
• Find each paper on Google Scholar and put the BibTeX entry into the text file
• Add the fields from the sample entry above and file them out as follows:
  • Disciple: publication type
  • Research_type: 'Types' (see above)
  • Industry: industries (see above)
  • thicket_def_extract: The text from the paper that you will use to decide the thicket definition
  • thicket_def: one or more of DHCI, Saturated, Overlapping, Gaming, etc.
  • tags: hash tags for modern terms and topic key words, e.g., #Probabilistic, #PatentPool, etc.
  • Filename: Only download the file if we don't have it in Candidate Papers. Put the file name in this tag.

Maybe Important Files

• PTLRCore.bib - Might contain core BibTeX entries

• PTLRDefinitions.pdf - useful to contrast conflicting definitions

• PTLRBibliography.bib - Long list of citations

• PTLR-HoldupQuotes.txt - List of complete quotes with citations

• PTLR-PolicyRpts.txt - Short list of policy reports ranging from 2002 - 2013

• PTLRUp.bib - Another bibliography, additions or subtractions unknown

• Files in C:\Users\Ed\Dropbox\coauthoredprojects\Egan and Teece\ThicketWiki
  • Particularly: CoreWithNewCoreForSorting-rev.txt

.PL files

• BibTucker.pl - location PTLRv2 & 3 folders

• PTLRBibTeXReprocessing.pl - location PTLRv2 & 3 folders

• temp.pl - location PTLRv2 folder

• BibTuckerV20.pl - PTLRv3 folder

• PLTROldTables.txt