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We take a first look at financial patents at the European Patent Office (EPO). As is the case at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the number of financial patents in Europe has increased significantly in parallel with significant changes in payment and financial systems. Scholars have...
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We take a first look at financial patents at the European Patent Office (EPO). As is the case at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the number of financial patents in Europe has increased significantly in parallel with significant changes in payment and financial systems. Scholars have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712119
The lack of firm-level data on innovative activities has always constrained the development of empirical studies on innovation. More recently, the availability of large datasets on indicators, such as R&D expenditures and patents, has relaxed these constrains and spurred the growth of a new wave...
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citations and the number of technical fields covered by the patent is informative for value. Software patents account for a … software and business methods patents on average are of poor quality and that these patents are applied for merely to build … portfolios rather than for protection of real inventions. We therefore tested for the impact of software patents on the market …
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citations, family size and the number of technical fields covered by the patent are modestly informative for value. Software … intellectual property rights argue that software and business methods patents on average are of poor quality and that these patents …
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citations, family size and the number of technical fields covered by the patent are modestly informative for value. Software … intellectual property rights argue that software and business methods patents on average are of poor quality and that these patents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751802