Plausibly Exogenous - Small Inventors (09/08/2021)
LHS Variable
Small inventors
RHS Variable
Patenting environment
Source of Exogenous Variation
A major change in the law that shifted the patent priority rules from the United States’ traditional “first-to-invent” system to the internationally predominant “first-to-file” system
- Abrams and Wagner (2013), “Poisoning the Next Apple? The America Invents Act and Individual Inventors”