This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner?s ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …

comprehensive dataset of three million street-level geocoded firm observations to explore the location pattern of software firms in … an Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA). Based on the ESDA results, we develop a software firm location prediction …

that collaborating firms are more likely to patent than others. Within the group of collaborating firms, participants in … publicly sponsored R&D consortia exhibit a higher propensity to patent than firms in non-sponsored networks. Especially SMEs …

collaboration and subsidies as heterogeneous treatments, and perform an econometric matching to analyze patent activity at the firm … exhibit a significant impact on patent activity, but the innovative performance could be improved by additional incentives for …

on the effects of the patent stock on profitability. The data base is a representative sample of German manufacturing … patent stock has a strong and robust effect on profitability. …

main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent … of a patent production function. It turns out that both purely privately financed R&D and publicly induced R&D show a …

empirical study on the determinants of innovative activity measured by patent applications are presented. A sample of German …

competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the ?patent thicket …