for short) of 9,017 patents granted by theEuropean Patent Office (EPO) between 1993 and 1997, located in France, Germany …

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patentprotection within the European patent system …. We develop an econometric modelat the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs onfirms …’ decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been grantedby the EPO. These costs have been disregarded in …

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their abilityto attract venture … biotechnology companies we have identifiedall patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate analysis, we … find thatin the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results also show that VCs payattention …

There has been a wide-spread misconception based on the imprecisewording of Art. 52 of the European Patent Convention … major patent indicators are computed. Further, a case study fromthe franking device industry which is characterized by …

We analyze the duration of the patent examination process at the EuropeanPatent Office (EPO). Our data contain … information related to the patent’seconomic and technical relevance, EPO capacity and workload as well as novelcitation measures … the patent grant by the examiner or an actual patent grant.Highly cited applications are approved faster by the EPO than …