this paper we exploit a novel dataset of patent applications filed in Germany between 1995-2005, which allows us to … identify if a patent application stems from a subsidized project or not. We use a variety of patent indicators to elucidate to … what extent successful subsidized and non-subsidized R&D projects within the same firm differ. Results show that patent …

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

academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … patent value, asymmetric information and diverging expectations between the opposition parties, the likelihood of a … applied by owners of potentially rival technologies. -- academic inventors ; intellectual property rights ; patent oppositions …

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 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 …

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. …