The battle for patent rights / Dietmar Harhoff -- Intellectual property, competition and the value of UK firms …

Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat …

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent … system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on … firms’ decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been granted by the EPO. These costs have been …

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 …

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 …

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 …