art which is relevant to judge the novelty of patent applications at the patent office and that corporate science has the … power to block patent applications. This paper analyses for the first time whether the presumed mechanism behind corporate … publications by corporations challenge the novelty of patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) significantly more …

patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic …

academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … patent value, asymmetric information and diverging expectations between the opposition parties, the likelihood of a …

This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent … survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear evidence that the companies' patenting strategies explain the … characteristics of their patent portfolios. First, companies using patents to protect their technological knowledge base receive a …

financial information and patent data for public firms in Europe as well as country level variables, we apply a structural model …