James E. Bessen

Best Publications

• An Empirical Look at Software Patents

  James Bessen;Robert M. Hunt

  1348
  Citations

• Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation

  James Bessen;Eric Maskin

  1342
  Citations

• The Direct Costs from NPE Disputes

  James Bessen;Michael J Meurer

  825
  Citations

• An Empirical Look at Software Patents

  James Bessen;Robert M. Hunt

  733
  Citations

• The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics

  James Bessen

  649
  Citations

• Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

  Morgan R. Frank;David Autor;James E. Bessen;Erik Brynjolfsson;Erik Brynjolfsson

  574
  Citations

• Automation and jobs: when technology boosts employment

  James Bessen

  475
  Citations

• Open Source Software: Free Provision of Complex Public Goods

  James Bessen

  470
  Citations

• The Direct Costs from NPE Disputes

  James E. Bessen;Michael J. Meurer

  417
  Citations

• The Patent Litigation Explosion

  James Bessen;Michael J. Meurer

  363
  Citations

• Sequential Innovation, Patents, And Imitation

  James E. Bessen;Eric Maskin;Eric Maskin;Eric Maskin

  327
  Citations

• Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies

  James Bessen

  282
  Citations

• The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls

  James Bessen;Jennifer L. Ford;Michael J. Meurer

  262
  Citations

• An Empirical Look at Software Patents

  James E. Bessen;Robert M. Hunt

  199
  Citations

• The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls

  James E. Bessen;Michael J. Meurer;Jennifer Laurissa Ford

  197
  Citations

• AI and Jobs: the role of demand

  James Bessen

  185
  Citations

• Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes

  James E. Bessen;Michael J. Meurer

  162
  Citations

• How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, Jobs, and Skills

  James Bessen

  143
  Citations

• Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology

  James Bessen

  139
  Citations

• Estimates of patent rents from firm market value

  James Bessen

  135
  Citations