creation alliances lead to more valuable patents as they receive significantly more forward citations per patent. Knowledge …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …

attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …

creation alliances lead to more valuable patents as they receive significantly more forward citations per patent. Knowledge …

attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …

innovation model. We show that pre-grant publication of patents lead to fewer applications and fewer inventions, but it raises …

We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the … broad spectrum of technologies. Process intensity varies by applicant type: companies file more process-intense patents than … individuals, and U.S. applicants file more process-intense patents than foreign applicants. We further show that patents with …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …

performance of downstream R&D. Using both the RIETI inventor survey in Japan and the bibliographic information of triadic patents … of the patents citing standard documents has been increasing. The citation information in US patent documents can be … knowledge flow. The R&D projects intensively using standard information tend to generate valuable patents and also a large …