for short) of 9,017 patents granted by theEuropean Patent Office (EPO) between 1993 and 1997, located in France, Germany …This paper provides new information, not available from other sources, on the characteristics ofthe innovation process … in Europe, and on the economic use and value of European patents. Ourdata are drawn from a survey (PatVal-EU, or PatVal …

Empirical studies have shown that patents can have a positive effect on corporate success.However, this effect does not … occur by itself. Companies have to make an effort to create andto develop a sustainable patent portfolio. So far, no … written questionnaire with more than 1,000 patent-orientedcompanies in the German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria …

innovation and imitation incentives.Surprisingly from an economic standpoint, however, various calculation methodsfor damages are …

Patent trolls appropriate profits from innovation solely by enforcing patents against infringers.They are often … characterized as relying on low-quality patents, an assessment that, if correct,would imply that eradicating such patents would … effectively terminate the troll business. Inthis paper, we shed light on this issue by empirically analyzing trolls’ patent …

the capacity of China’s NIS in creating indigenous innovation.We provide insights drawing upon patent data and using … patent families to determine the valueof the underlying invention. For the timeframe we studied, China’s comparative … of patent applications mirror both, the improved protection ofintellectual property rights and increasing capacity for …

1999-2004 and measureinnovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at theEuropean Patent … scientistscontribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, inturn, contribute slightly less to … industrial innovation than recent university graduates. Bycontrast, immobile workers add little to the innovative activity of …

We develop a dynamic duopoly model of R&D competition to improve the quality of a finalgood. The innovation process is … production model under two distinct intellectual property right (IPR) regimes,essentially a patent system with and without a … traditional plant breeder’srights allow for a well-defined research exemption, whereas standard utility patents do not …

and new knowledgegenerated we use counts of patent filings per county. The proposed geographic spillin is tested for theUS … and implementing spatial statistical methods. The data setis comprised of primary inventor utility patent filings per …

innovation. Yet, firms do patent, as indicated by the largenumber of patents that are granted. This paper offers a possible …Recent surveys report that firms claim they do not rely heavily on patents in order toappropriate a return on their … resolution to this puzzle.It takes a simplified version of a duopoly innovation race, and studies the patenting decisionof an …

foradjacent regions. One main finding is that the quality of the university research makes somecontribution to regional innovation …