academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … academic patents protect more basic inventions than corporate patents. This study provides new evidence on the basicness of … oppositions are the most important mechanism by which the validity of patents filed at the EPO can be challenged. Controlling for …

assignee and which are owned by corporate entities. Our findings suggest that faculty patents assigned to corporations exhibit …. Faculty patents assigned to academic inventors or to public research institutions, in contrast, are more complex, more basic …

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 …

Many studies investigate the relationship between R&D expenditures as an input and patents as an intermediate product … or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead …

empirical study on the determinants of innovative activity measured by patent applications are presented. A sample of German …

not account for heterogeneity of patenting activities ranging from university patents to corporate patents. While the … publishing distinguishing between different types of patents for a large sample of professors active in Germany. Our results show … that, while university patents as well as patents assigned to not-for-profit institutions complement publication quantity …

on the effects of the patent stock on profitability. The data base is a representative sample of German manufacturing … patent stock has a strong and robust effect on profitability. …