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 … Office (EPO) over the past two decades. The results demonstrate that the average size of applications has doubled during this … period and that the largest influence comes from applications filed via the PCT route and/or with a US priority application …