. Zudem gehe es bei der Impfstoffdebatte eher um den Weg vom Patent zur Produktion als um die Entstehung neuer Produkte durch …

The imprecise wording of article 52 of the European Patent Convention lead to uncertainty with regard to the … patentability of inventions related to financial methods and processes at the European Patent Office (EPO). This article summarizes …,761 EPO patent applications based on inventions related to financial methods and processes are identified. The analysis of …

The existing literature identifies patent thickets indirectly. In this paper we propose a novel measure based on patent … citations which allows us to measure the density of patent thickets directly. We discuss the algorithm which generates the … by patent thickets. …

There has been a wide-spread misconception based on the imprecisewording of Art. 52 of the European Patent Convention … major patent indicators are computed. Further, a case study fromthe franking device industry which is characterized by …

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 …