patents. The empirical analysis, which focuses on the patent systems of the USA, Japan, and Europe during the year 2003, leads … linear relationship appears between the cost of patenting and the number of claims that are filed; iv) for a patent …

correlates of the applicants’ and examiners’ assessments of a patent’s economic and technical relevance as well as ex post … patent grant or an actual patent grant by the European Patent Office. Measuring a patent’s importance relying on the number …We analyze the duration of patent examination at the European Patent Office (EPO). Our data contain variables that are …

motivations to invent, and the actual use and economic value of the patents. …

earnings for a patent grant and for highly-cited patents a longer-lasting premium of 30% in earnings three years later. Similar …A key input to inventive activity is human capital. Hence it is important to understand the monetary incentives of … inventors. We estimate the effect of patented inventions on individual earnings by linking data on U.S. patents and their …

We analyze incentives to develop entrepreneurial ideas for venture capitalists (VCs) and incumbent firms. If VCs are … sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs … acquire valuable ideas, develop them beyond the level incumbents would have chosen, and use patents to signal their companies …

innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying … incentives. Using detailed information on code contributions and project membership, we classify developers into distinct groups …

measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … and material. Therefore, our finding suggests that, at industry level, VC investment increases the patent propensity but …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is … allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using data on patents granted to small firms and individuals, we find evidence …

implementation of the Community Patent (COMPAT). The econometric results and simulations presented in this paper suggest that, thanks … relative patenting costs for applicants while generating more income for the European Patent Office and most National Patent … Offices. The loss of economic rents (€400 million would be lost by patent attorneys, translators and lawyers) and the drop of …

The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts the patent system under pressure. This … paper analyses the sources of this surge in number of claims and pages of patent applications at the EPO. Four hypotheses … patent applications. …