The Office of Chief Economist (OCE) is responsible for advising the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO on the economic implications of policies and programs affecting the U.S. intellectual property system.
Highlights
- EPIP Conference: Chief Economist, Alan Marco, and Deputy Chief Economist, Andy Toole, are presenting at the 11th Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association(link is external) at Oxford University on September 3-5th.
- Cancer Moonshot: The USPTO has launched a Cancer Moonshot Challenge(link is external) in support of the White House's initiative. OCE helped create a dataset to be used for the challenge.
- Searle Conference: OCE co-sponsored and presented at the 9thAnnual Conference on Innovation Economics(link is external) with the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth. Conference participants examined and discussed the connections between IP, innovation, and entrepreneurship through empirical and theoretical economic and legal analyses.
- Research Data Release: OCE has updated the Patent Examination Research Dataset (Public PAIR) with 2015 information.
- Research Finding: In an article forthcoming in the Review of International Economics, OCE economist found that negotiating patterns for some developing countries in the Uruguay Round of the GATT system is consistent with predictions of the terms-of-trade theory.
- Research Finding: In an article published in the European Economic Review, OCE Deputy Chief Economist and co-authors find that transferring ownership rights to universities in Germany minimally strengthened the relationship between patents on university-discovered inventions and university start-ups; however, it substantially decreased the volume of patents with the largest decrease taking place in faculty-firm patenting.
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