This paper describes a methodology for the construction of a novel patent dataset for computing consolidated patent portfolios across patent offices. In particular, relying on two previous contributions – the EPIP database for EPO/PCT patents and the IIP patent database for JPO patent...

The paper presents the results of a research on railway regulation and liberalisation in Italy, France, Germany and Spain. The analysed fields of regulation are the relationship between the State and the rail companies, network access conditions by operators, slot allocating and pricing schemes...