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My dissertation seeks to address this gap in the literature by examining what drives firms to purchase real options as mechanisms to preserve flexibility in their commitment decisions in patenting strategies. In my first empirical study (Chapter 2), I seek to examine the patent-secrecy choice as an exemplar of the value of such real options in appropriability strategies. As a primary hypothesis, I propose that the greater the risk of technology disclosure to rivals due to patenting, the more likely that firms purchase “secrecy options” to retain secrecy of inventions while attempting to patent them. I employ a difference-in-differences research design that leverages the American Inventors Protection Act, a quasi-exogenous change in U.S. patent law that resulted in faster disclosure of technologies pursuing patent protection, and show that firms were more likely to purchase secrecy options (by filing provisional patent applications) for patents affected by faster disclosure. Further, I find that this effect was quite large, and more pronounced for smaller firms and more novel technologies. In my second empirical study (Chapter 3), I examine how firms strategically respond to the patent racing incentives created by a first-past-the-post principle of the patent system, and propose that they may do so by capitalizing on real options – represented by provisional applications – in the patenting process. I employ a difference-in-differences design that leverages the transition of the U.S. patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system following the America Invents Act, and show that firms were more likely to file provisional applications (as real options on future patent applications) under a first-to-file system. Furthermore, I show that the magnitude of this effect depended on contingencies such as the firm’s technological dominance, industry concentration and patent effectiveness. In my third empirical study (Chapter 4), I examine firms’ revealed preference to purchase real options in patent term extension by leveraging the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, which changed U.S. patent term from a 17-years-from-issuance to a 20-years-from-priority date term. I show that patent prosecution uncertainty increases the value of real options in patent term extension, consistent with real options theory. I find that a firm’s purchase of real options is further related to industry differences, invention value, and the type of patent application (original versus continuing). My dissertation contributes to the literature in real options theory as well as appropriability strategies by applying received theory to a new context. 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As a primary hypothesis, I propose that the greater the risk of technology disclosure to rivals due to patenting, the more likely that firms purchase “secrecy options” to retain secrecy of inventions while attempting to patent them. I employ a difference-in-differences research design that leverages the American Inventors Protection Act, a quasi-exogenous change in U.S. patent law that resulted in faster disclosure of technologies pursuing patent protection, and show that firms were more likely to purchase secrecy options (by filing provisional patent applications) for patents affected by faster disclosure. Further, I find that this effect was quite large, and more pronounced for smaller firms and more novel technologies. In my second empirical study (Chapter 3), I examine how firms strategically respond to the patent racing incentives created by a first-past-the-post principle of the patent system, and propose that they may do so by capitalizing on real options – represented by provisional applications – in the patenting process. I employ a difference-in-differences design that leverages the transition of the U.S. patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file system following the America Invents Act, and show that firms were more likely to file provisional applications (as real options on future patent applications) under a first-to-file system. Furthermore, I show that the magnitude of this effect depended on contingencies such as the firm’s technological dominance, industry concentration and patent effectiveness. In my third empirical study (Chapter 4), I examine firms’ revealed preference to purchase real options in patent term extension by leveraging the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, which changed U.S. patent term from a 17-years-from-issuance to a 20-years-from-priority date term. I show that patent prosecution uncertainty increases the value of real options in patent term extension, consistent with real options theory. I find that a firm’s purchase of real options is further related to industry differences, invention value, and the type of patent application (original versus continuing). My dissertation contributes to the literature in real options theory as well as appropriability strategies by applying received theory to a new context. 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