There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …

characteristics of their patent portfolios. First, companies using patents to protect their technological knowledge base receive a … higher number of citations for their patents. Second, the motive of offensive - but not of defensive - blocking is related to … a higher incidence of oppositions, whereas companies using patents as bartering chips in collaborations receive fewer …

characteristics of their patent portfolios. First, companies using patents to protect their technological knowledge base receive a … higher number of citations for their patents. Second, the motive of offensive – but not of defensive – blocking is related to … a higher incidence of oppositions, whereas companies using patents as bartering chips in collaborations receive fewer …

academic patents protect more basic inventions than corporate patents. This study provides new evidence on the basicness of … academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … 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 …

publications as a means to preempt patents works. With focus on the semiconductor technology our results show that scientific … corporate publications threaten the novelty of patent applications if combined with other pieces of prior art like patents …

patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …

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 …

venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …