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. …

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an … invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions … and the certification effect of patents which signals the ventures’ “quality” to investors. If the decision about patent …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions – Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK … information at the case, litigant, and patent level for patent cases filed at the major courts in the four jurisdictions. We find …

a copyright-, trademark- and patent-eligible subject matter, a European perspective is still lacking in the literature …

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 …

We develop an index that compares the quality of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications by considering citations … is decreasing over time. We find that the patent quality of firms increases in R&D stocks but decreases with the …

I analyse how patent litigation outcome in Germany affects the performance of the disputing firms by interpreting … the functioning of the bifurcated German patent litigation system: The separation of litigation and invalidity decisions …, resulting in invalidity decisions taking much longer than decisions on infringement, provides patent holders with a window of …

effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application … patent are negatively related as opposed to common intuition, (ii) in industries with imperfect appropriability in case of … secrecy the extent of the technological lead is positively associated with the propensity to patent, and that (iii) the …