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 …

This study investigates whether standard patent measures for the importance and basicness of patents are able to … than the controls, which suggests that these indicators should be interpreted carefully. -- Patents ; patent indicators …