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 … substantial differences across jurisdictions in terms of case loads. Courts in Germany hear by far the largest number of cases in …

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 …

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 …

for the same innovation or for different innovations. Employing firm panel data from Germany, we find fairly few …

We contribute to the economic literature on patent litigation by taking a new perspective. In the past, scholars mostly … focused on specific litigation cases at the patent level and related technological characteristics to the event of litigation … supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation …

forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications ("blocking citations"). Empirical …. This finding adds to the patent value literature by showing that different types of patent citations carry different …

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 …

output. Research units that source research ideas from small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) patent more, but not more …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …