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 …

In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by … numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences. Literature suggests that both the fragmentation of … ownership and the threat of a firm's patent applications being blocked by competitors' patents lead to increased patenting and …

art which is relevant to judge the novelty of patent applications at the patent office and that corporate science has the … power to block patent applications. This paper analyses for the first time whether the presumed mechanism behind corporate … publications by corporations challenge the novelty of patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) significantly more …

sector. Academic inventions are identified via patent applications of German academic scientists. We find that academic …

This study investigates whether standard patent measures for the importance and basicness of patents are able to …

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 …

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 …