' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …

This paper examines the role of patent policy in a spatial model of sequential innovation. Initial entrepreneurs … highly. The likelihood of sequential innovation increases with the number of initial early entrants in the market. Patent … determine the optimal patent breadth as a function of key industry characteristics of both consumer taste and the new technology. …

had profound effects on the jurisprudential development of the legal regimes within its purview - especially the patent … of legal authority will yield a clearer, more coherent, and more predictable legal infrastructure for the patent law … interpretation of language defining a patent's scope - we conclude that, on this indicator at least, the record is decidedly mixed …