careers. We combine survey information spanning the inventors' entire careers and psychometric test evidence, with patent … of inventive performance such as inventor age and a broad list of applicant institution-, technology-, patent-, and …

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 explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …-Maddala and log normal distributions, the log normal appears to provide the best fit to our patented invention value data. …

of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so … that anybody "skilled in the art" is enabled to reproduce the invention, the non-disclosure intention seems contradictory … to patent law. This paper provides a model identifying the incentives for firms to deliberately obscure their inventive …

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

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 …

industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis … on the basis of patent data was conducted and a weighted bivariate probit model was estimated on the citation probability … of industry and science on the basis of a combined sample of citing and cited patent pairs and an equal number of control …

. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the …