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 … other hand, depends onthe relative magnitudes of the costs of initial innovation and improvements. In particular, aresearch …

Patent trolls appropriate profits from innovation solely by enforcing patents against infringers.They are often … 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 …

This paper provides new information, not available from other sources, on the characteristics ofthe innovation process … for short) of 9,017 patents granted by theEuropean Patent Office (EPO) between 1993 and 1997, located in France, Germany …

The contributory infringement rule assesses liability to a third party that contributes tothe infringement of a patent …

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 …

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 …

foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensingafter World War I under the Trading with the …