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 … the patent grant by the examiner or an actual patent grant.Highly cited applications are approved faster by the EPO than …