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000042123 1001_ $$aHo, Daniel E.
000042123 1001_ $$aLarrimore Ouellette, Lisa.
000042123 24503 $$aImproving Scientific Judgments in Law and Government :$$bA Field Experiment of Patent Peer Review.
000042123 264_1 $$aIthaca, New York :$$bCornell Law School,$$c2020.
000042123 300__ $$a47 pages
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000042123 520__ $$aMany have advocated for the expansion of peer review to improve scientific judgments in law and public policy. One such test case is the patent examination process, with numerous commentators arguing that scientific peer review can solve informational deficits in patent determinations. We present results from a novel randomized field experiment, carried out over the course of three years, in which 336 prominent scientific experts agreed to provide input on U.S. patent applications. Their input was edited for compliance with submission requirements and submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) by our research team. We show that the intervention caused examiners to (i) increase search efforts and citations to the non-patent (scientific) literature and (ii) grant the application at lower rates in the first instance. However, results were substantially weaker and resource costs substantially higher than anticipated in the literature, highlighting significant challenges and questions of institutional design in bringing scientific expertise into law and government.
000042123 525__ $$aPublished in : Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 190
000042123 605_0 $$aPatent
000042123 650__ $$aPeer Review
000042123 650_0 $$aField Experiment
000042123 650_0 $$aScientific Expertise
000042123 650_0 $$aPrior Art
000042123 85641 $$uhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3548921$$yView this resource
000042123 904__ $$aJournal article
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