Protecting Intellectual Property Rights: Are Small Firms Handicapped?

Derwent for generously providing access to their LitAlert database, which was critical to making this project feasible. We thank Bronwyn Hall, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg for their provision of some data inputs, Joe Cecil from the Federal Judicial Center and Jim Hirabayashi of the U.S. Patent and Trademark office for helpful discussions about the court and patent data. Finally, we are grateful to Marty Adelman, Wes Cohen, Adam Jaffe, Kimberly Moore, Michelle White, an Editor of the journal and an anonymous referee for useful comments. Maria Fitzpatrick provided excellent research assistance.