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Filing Strategies and Patent Value
van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; van Zeebroeck, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper aims at contributing to the literature on the determinants of patent value. First, it puts forward a new potential class of value determinants in the form of filing strategies (encompassing filing routes and drafting styles). Second, it provides empirical evidence suggesting that...
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A Brief History of Space and Time: the Scope-Year Index as a Patent Value Indicator Based on Families and Renewals
van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; van Zeebroeck, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The renewal of patents and their geographical scope for protection constitute two essential dimensions in a patent’s life, and probably the most frequently used patent value indicators. The intertwining of these dimensions (the geographical scope of protection may vary over time) makes their...
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The Value of European Patents
Gambardella, Alfonso; Harhoff, Dietmar; Verspagen, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
skewed distribution of patent values. Our measure is significantly correlated with the number of patent citations, references …, claims, and countries in which the patent is applied. Citations explain value as much as the other three indicators combined …, and the right tail of citations is correlated with the right tail of our value measure. Yet, the four indicators only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792528
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
Brusoni, Stefano; Crespi, Gustavo; Francoz, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...
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Claiming More: The Increased Voluminosity of Patent Applications and its Determinants
Guellec, Dominique; van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts the patent system under pressure. This paper analyses the sources of this surge in number of claims and pages of patent applications at the EPO. Four hypotheses are scrutinized: the diffusion of national drafting...
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When Small is Beautiful: Measuring the Evolution and Consequences of the Voluminosity of Patent Applications at the EPO
Archontopoulos, Eugenio; Guellec, Dominique; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts patent systems under pressure. This paper addresses issues in measuring the voluminosity of patent applications and highlights patterns in its evolution. The results - based on a 2 million EPO applications database...
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Models and Methods of University Technology Transfer
Link, Albert N.; Bradley, Samantha R.; Hayter, … - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013
This paper argues that a linear model of technology transfer is no longer sufficient, or perhaps even no longer relevant, to account for the nuances and complexities of the technology transfer process that characterizes the ongoing commercialization activities of universities. Shortcomings of...
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Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions
Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
number of forward patent citations per patent to identify radical from non-radical inventions. For our analysis we used the … backward patent citations per patent. In order to test if the two groups we are considering are truly different and to see on …
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Information and intellectual property: The global challenges
Aiyer Ghosh, Rishab; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
The paper analyses the contribution of 'golden papers' - seminal works whose ideas remain as fresh and relevant today as when they were first published decades ago - and which continue to dominate academic discourse among successive generations of scholars. The authors analyse why two works...
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Innovation and Competitive Capacity in Bangladeshs Pharmaceutical Sector
Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
The global pharmaceutical sector is highly patent intensive, and firms rely on product, process and formulation patents to protect their innovations. Intellectual property rights on pharmaceutical products, as contained in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights...
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