attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only "false innovators" have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, "true innovators" are forced to patent more intensively … reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its …

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm's U.S. inventors and cross …

This paper conducts a comprehensive study of patent citations in patents granted to Belgian corporate applicants by the … patterns of citations in patents, which belong to different industrial classes. The studied citation data provides evidence of …

university patents are more readable. Combining the multiple measures using principal component analysis, we find that the gap in … patents become less readable is use of multiple examples to mask the "best mode" of inventions. By confirming that … computational linguistic measures are useful indicators of readability of patents, we suggest that the disclosure function of …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent …