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Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting
Schneider, Cédric; Hussinger, Katrin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008
involvement in patenting results in greater knowledge externalities, as academic patents appear to generate more forward citations …
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New evidence on determinants of IP litigation: A market-based approach
Czarnitzki, Dirk; van Criekingen, Kristof - 2018
We contribute to the economic literature on patent litigation by taking a new perspective. In the past, scholars mostly focused on specific litigation cases at the patent level and related technological characteristics to the event of litigation. However, observing IP disputes suggests that not...
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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
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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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation
Vopel, Katrin; Scherer, Frederic M.; Narin, Francis; … - 1997
yielded a count of citations to those patents. Patents renewed to full term were significantly more valuable than patents …
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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios
Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - 2008
portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on … 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 …
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Intellectual property infringements due to R&D abroad? A comparative analysis between firms with international and domestic R&D activities
Schmiele, Anja - 2010
This paper aims at analysing the risk of intellectual property (IP) infringements by competitors from abroad and in particular whether this risk is higher for international innovating firms. We distinguish three different types of IP infringements from abroad: the usage of firms' technical...
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Corporate science in the patent system: An analysis of the semiconductor technology
Della Malva, Antonio; Hussinger, Katrin - 2010
Corporate scientific publications are often presented as a strategic means for firms to create prior art with the objective to prevent others from patenting related inventions. This presumes that corporate publications enter the pool of prior art which is relevant to judge the novelty of patent...
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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Mueller, Elisabeth - 2011
This paper analyzes how companies of immigrant entrepreneurs in knowledgeintensive industries differ from companies of native entrepreneurs with respect to start-up characteristics, firm survival and innovative performance. I focus on immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and...
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The impact of brand use on innovation performance: Empirical results for Germany
Crass, Dirk - 2014
The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a number of different ways, and optimize their...
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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?
Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013
Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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