provide external finance to innovative firms based on the firms' patent portfolios. Patents have been used as collateral or as … assets assembled in patent funds seeking to commercialize the patent rights. Patent auctions are indicative of a nascent … and the design of patent systems. …

which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents … allowed to expire before their full term. The higher an invention?s economic value estimate was, the more the relevant patent …

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

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … analysis, we find that in the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results also show that VCs pay …

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … analysis, we find that in the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results also show that VCs pay …

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patentprotection within the European patent system …. We develop an econometric modelat the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs onfirms …’ decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been grantedby the EPO. These costs have been disregarded in …

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their abilityto attract venture … biotechnology companies we have identifiedall patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate analysis, we … find thatin the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results also show that VCs payattention …

We analyze the duration of the patent examination process at the EuropeanPatent Office (EPO). Our data contain … information related to the patent’seconomic and technical relevance, EPO capacity and workload as well as novelcitation measures … the patent grant by the examiner or an actual patent grant.Highly cited applications are approved faster by the EPO than …