van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; van Zeebroeck, … - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2008
Patent filings worldwide have been subject to a combined growth in terms of the number of applications filed and their … size. This is putting patent systems under tremendous pressure, as witnessed by the evolution of backlogs at several patent … offices. The present article presents an analysis of the evolution in patent voluminosity observed at the European Patent …