Is the Patent System Sensitive to Incorrect Information?
通过分析被撤稿论文对应的专利，发现申请人、审查员和下游引用者对这些专利中的不准确信息不敏感，可能影响专利质量和知识流动。
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 We use a novel approach to identify patents with inaccurate information: patent-paper pairs where the paper has been retracted and the corresponding patent contains the retracted material.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.