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Should there be lower taxes on patent income?

Gaessler, Fabian; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2019

A "patent box" is a term for the application of a lower corporate tax rate to the income derived from the ownership of patents. This tax subsidy instrument has been introduced in a number of countries since 2000. Using comprehensive data on patents filed at the European Patent Office, including...

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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition

Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...

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Modeling the Duration of Patent Examination at theEuropean Patent Office

Harhoff, Dietmar; Wagner, Stefan - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2006

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 … which are derived from the EPO’s search reports. In our multivariateanalysis we estimate competing risk specifications in …

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Information leakage, imitation, and the patent system

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2021 - This version: August 2021

From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer from negative externalities, i.e. spillovers to other...

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The rise of process claims : evidence from a century of U.S. patents

Ganglmair, Bernhard; Robinson, W. Keith; Seeligson, Michael - 2022 - This version: April 2, 2022

We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the type of independent patent claims, we show an increase in the annual share of process claims of about 25 percentage points (from below 10% in 1920). This rise in process intensity...

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Truly standard-essential patents? : a semantics-based analysis

Brachtendorf, Lorenz; Gäßler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2020

Standard-essential patents (SEPs) have become a key element of technical coordination in standard-setting organizations. Yet, in many cases, it remains unclear whether a declared SEP is truly standard-essential. To date, there is no automated procedure that allows for a scalable and objective...

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Are firms withdrawing from basic research? : an analysis of firm-level publication behaviour in Germany

Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel; Blind, Knut; … - 2020

Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by studying trends in the scientific publishing activities of firms located in Germany. Our results do not confirm a declining trend in raw numbers with numbers indicating that...

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Hiring new key inventors to improve firms' post-M&A inventive output

Arroyabe, M. F.; Hussinger, Katrin; Hagedoorn, John - 2020

Although merger and acquisitions (M&As) are acknowledged as an important means to access innovative assets and know-how, firms’ inventive output often declines in the post-M&A period. Financial, managerial and organizational constraints related to the M&A event contribute to inventive output...

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The effect of patent litigation insurance : theory and evidence from NPEs

Ganglmair, Bernhard; Helmers, Christian; Love, Brian J. - 2020

We analyze the extent to which private defensive litigation insurance deters patent assertion by non-practicing entities (NPEs). We study the effect that a patent-specific defensive insurance product, offered by a leading litigation insurer, had on the litigation behavior of insured patents’...

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How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation : Bell Labs and the 1956 consent

Watzinger, Martin; Fackler, Thomas; Nagler, Markus; … - 2017

We study the 1956 consent decree against the Bell System to investigate whether patents held by a dominant firm are harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an antitrust lawsuit that charged Bell with having...

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