Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat …

within a company group. However, the previous literature has rather focused on studying the impact of taxation on patent … employ data on European and US patent and trademark applications in the period of 1996-2012 and estimate a multinomial logit …

innovative performance also depends on the size of a firm's patent portfolio, which suggests an important strategic role for …

landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. For firms with small patent portfolios we also find a positive association … appear to depend on the size of a firm’s patent portfolio. These results suggest that the effects of fragmentation of … upstream IP rights are not uniform, and instead vary according to the characteristics of the downstream firm. -- patent …

of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so … to patent law. This paper provides a model identifying the incentives for firms to deliberately obscure their inventive … knowledge in a patent specification. …