Hegde, Deepak; Mowery, David C.; Graham, Stuart J. H. - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 7, pp. 1214-1226
Why do firms use continuations in the prosecution of their patents? Motivated by the widespread use of continuations by U.S. firms and the prominence of this procedure in U.S. patent policy debates, we investigate the influence of corporate and patent characteristics on the use of continuations....
