advance the notion of quadic patent family, defined as a patent family that consists of patent applications at the European … Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the national patent office of a … a sample of 38 countries. Our results indicate that quadic patent applications are driven by the need for accessing …

financial patents at the US Patent and Trademark Office, and to have also impacted other patent offices around the world. A … about the relationship between the patent system and innovation, in order to draw some tentative conclusions about their … number of scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decisions themselves …

We analyze the nanotechnology patent applications filed in China from 1998 to 2008 and find that the extraordinary … industry can benefit from public R&D investment to actively develop indigenous innovation. …

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a "medical anti … develops a framework of analysis for the impact of patent rights on biomedical innovation in "technology follower" developing …-commons" has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now …

We estimate the value of Chinese invention and utility model patents that were applied for during two periods, 1987 …-1989 and 1986-1998. We find that patents applied for by foreign entities invariably have higher value than do those applied for … by domestic entities, and the gap is significant. The total value of invention and utility model patents in the 1987 …

is very important. For our research we made use of the EPO (European Patent Office) database on patents. We used the … 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 …

the effects of patent life and patent breadth on market outcomes. To answer these research questions, an evolutionary …, multi-agent based, sector-level cumulative innovation model is designed. The model addresses supply and demand sides of the … technology levels at the micro level. In line with the evolutionary modelling tradition, we have a search algorithm-innovation …

using data on trademarks filed at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the study identifies those firms …

Technological innovation depends on knowledge developed by scientific research. The num-ber of citations made in … patents to the scientific literature has been suggested as an indicator of this process of transfer of knowledge from science … to technology. We provide an intersec-toral insight into this indicator, by breaking down patent citations into a sector …

We take a first look at financial patents at the European Patent Office (EPO). As is the case at the US Patent and … firms in non-financial sectors with diversified patent portfolios own a large share of financial patents at the EPO. However … Trademark Office (USPTO), the number of financial patents in Europe has increased significantly in parallel with significant …