such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a …The study of the innovative output of firms often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference … selection bias. Using a novel dataset of the whole population of patents by Belgian firms, we show that the single-office count …

I analyse how patent litigation outcome in Germany affects the performance of the disputing firms by interpreting … the functioning of the bifurcated German patent litigation system: The separation of litigation and invalidity decisions …, resulting in invalidity decisions taking much longer than decisions on infringement, provides patent holders with a window of …

This paper looks at the decision to settle patent litigation in Germany from a new angle by focusing on detailed data …% of all patent litigation cases in Germany between 2000 and 2008 we estimate the likelihood of within-trial settlement. We …. Additionally, firm-specific stakes as measured by the relation of the involved parties to the disputed patent as well as firm …

destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using detailed data on patents …

analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner?s ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information …

which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents … yielded a count of citations to those patents. Patents renewed to full term were significantly more valuable than patents … allowed to expire before their full term. The higher an invention?s economic value estimate was, the more the relevant patent …

intellectual property (IP) ownership. Further, we employ firm-specific micro-data on patent applications of European corporations … at the European Patent Office to test reactions on changes in R&D tax incentives and corporate tax burden. We find a … and the count of patent applications. …

evidence for start-up firms on the role of patents as signals to investors, in particular to Venture Capitalists. This study …&D for a panel of established firms. The results show that patents do indeed attenuate financing constraints for small firms … to financing constraints, but also do not seem to benefit from a patent quality signal. …

patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic … patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …