| Patent failure J Bessen, MJ Meurer Patent Failure, 2009 | 1495 | 2009 |
| Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation J Bessen, E Maskin The RAND Journal of Economics 40 (4), 611-635, 2009 | 1128 | 2009 |
| An empirical look at software patents J Bessen, RM Hunt Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 16 (1), 157-189, 2007 | 664 | 2007 |
| The value of US patents by owner and patent characteristics J Bessen Research Policy 37 (5), 932-945, 2008 | 548 | 2008 |
| The Direct Costs from NPE Disputes J Bessen, M Meurer | 378 | 2012 |
| Open source software: Free provision of complex public goods J Bessen The economics of open source software development, 57-81, 2006 | 344 | 2006 |
| The private and social costs of patent trolls J Bessen, J Ford, MJ Meurer Regulation 34, 26, 2011 | 251 | 2011 |
| Lessons for patent policy from empirical research on patent litigation J Bessen, MJ Meurer Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 9, 1, 2005 | 214 | 2005 |
| Learning by doing: the real connection between innovation, wages, and wealth J Bessen Yale University Press, 2015 | 192 | 2015 |
| How computer automation affects occupations: Technology, jobs, and skills JE Bessen Boston Univ. school of law, law and economics research paper, 2016 | 191 | 2016 |
| The patent litigation explosion J Bessen, MJ Meurer Loy. U. Chi. LJ 45, 401, 2013 | 189 | 2013 |
| Patent thickets: Strategic patenting of complex technologies JE Bessen Available at SSRN 327760, 2003 | 164 | 2003 |
| Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment J Bessen Economic Policy 34 (100), 589-626, 2019 | 123 | 2019 |
| Patent litigation with endogenous disputes JE Bessen, MJ Meurer American Economic Review 96 (2), 77-81, 2006 | 118 | 2006 |
| Patents and the diffusion of technical information J Bessen Economics Letters 86 (1), 121-128, 2005 | 111 | 2005 |
| Technology adoption costs and productivity growth: The transition to information technology J Bessen Review of Economic dynamics 5 (2), 443-469, 2002 | 110 | 2002 |
| Holdup and licensing of cumulative innovations with private information J Bessen Economics Letters 82 (3), 321-326, 2004 | 102 | 2004 |
| Estimates of patent rents from firm market value J Bessen Research Policy 38 (10), 1604-1616, 2009 | 97 | 2009 |
| Estimates of patent rents from firm market value J Bessen Research Policy 38 (10), 1604-1616, 2009 | 97 | 2009 |
| Sequential innovation, patents J Bessen, E Maskin and Imitation, 2000 | 93 | 2000 |
Michael MeurerBoston University, Duke University, University at BuffaloVerified email at bu.edu
