’ affective commitment within six major Malaysian semiconductor contract manufacturing organizations. Despite extensive research …

-national spaces in patent applications is found to be limited to just two to three regions or countries. Regionally, West India, North … India and South India mostly dominated the patenting activities during 1990‒2010. The patent performance is highly … patent applications filed in India in the study period. Empirical analysis further emphasized that states patenting …

value and future liquidity of patent collateral, explain why higher-value and more liquid patents are more acceptable … collateral, and indicate how patent-collateralization improves high-risk SMEs’ chances of receiving loans. We clarify how the … complexity of technology influences patent liquidity. An empirical examination employing a novel dataset of patents accepted as …

factors for technology invention related to green chemistry in Japan using patent application data and a decomposition … increased because of the scale-up of overall research activities and increased priority. Additionally, the number of patent …

Most patent systems allow applicants to defer patent examination by some time. Deferred examination was introduced in … the 1960s, first at the Dutch patent office and subsequently in many other countries, as a response to mounting backlogs … of unexamined patent applications. Some applicants allow the examination option to lapse and never request examination …