专利制度对错误信息敏感吗？
Is the Patent System Sensitive to Incorrect Information?
Review of Economics and Statistics · 2023 · [{"name": "Janet Freilich", "affiliation": ["Boston University", "Fordham University"]}, {"name": "Soomi Kim", "affiliation": ["Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology"]}]
中文摘要
摘要：我们通过考察专利制度参与者如何处理不准确信息，研究他们是否对信息质量敏感。我们采用一种新颖的方法识别包含不准确信息的专利：即论文已被撤稿、而相应专利中仍包含该撤稿材料的专利-论文配对。尽管包含不准确信息，我们发现，许多申请人仍在推进这些专利的审查程序并使其维持有效，审查员并未驳回这些专利，撤稿后这些专利仍继续被部分下游读者引用。对不准确信息的不敏感可能导致审查过程中的错误决策，并对专利质量、信息披露和知识流动产生影响。
Abstract
Abstract We investigate whether participants in the patent system are sensitive to information quality by examining how they treat inaccurate information. We use a novel approach to identify patents with inaccurate information: patent-paper pairs where the paper has been retracted and the corresponding patent contains the retracted material. Despite containing inaccurate information, we find that these patents are prosecuted and maintained by many applicants, are not rejected by examiners, and continue to be cited by some downstream readers after retraction. Insensitivity to inaccurate information may lead to erroneous decisions during examination and has implications for patent quality, disclosure, and knowledge flows.