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Patent litigation settlement in Germany : why parties settle during trial
Cremers, Katrin; Schliessler, Paula - 2012
This paper looks at the decision to settle patent litigation in Germany from a new angle by focusing on detailed data on within-trial actions and motivations by plain-tiff, defendant and the courts. Using a new dataset covering about 80% of all patent litigation cases in Germany between 2000 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691273
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The effect of patent litigation on firm performance : evidence for Germany
Schliessler, Paula - 2013
I analyse how patent litigation outcome in Germany affects the performance of the disputing firms by interpreting changes in a firm's credit rating as a proxy for changes in firm performance. The results match theoretical considerations on the functioning of the bifurcated German patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721892
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Invalid but infringed? : an analysis of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system
Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014
We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416329
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Determinants of patent litigation in Germany
Cremers, Katrin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002372488
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … indicate that the skill composition has different effects on firm entry in the two countries. More specifically, for Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888000
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International cooperation on innovation : empirical evidence for German and Portuguese firms
Faria, Pedro (contributor); Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2007
cooperate with foreign partners than non-exporters, whereas in Portugal this is not the case. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003554673
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Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? : results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 1999
market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency …' institutional detail on the nature of employment protection in Portugal; and, second, and more substantively, by offering a detailed … analysis of the process of labor djustment in Portugal, benchmarked to other-country experience. The latter exercise - based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442864
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Formal and strategic appropriability strategies of multinational firms : a cross country comparison
Faria, Pedro (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721781
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Fighting hard core cartels
Hüschelrath, Kai; Weigand, Jürgen - 2010
The paper provides a comprehensive survey of the economics behind the fight against hard core cartels. Differentiating between four subsequent stages – characterisation, welfare effects, enforcement and evaluation – the paper pays particular attention to cartel detection methods, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701356
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Patent litigation in Europe
Cremers, Katrin (contributor) - 2013
We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions – Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK – covering cases filed during the period 2000-2008. For our analysis, we assemble a new dataset that contains detailed information at the case, litigant, and patent level for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128711