the enactment of the first nationwide German patent law in 1877 and 1932. This patent act enabled both, national and … the cross-border importance of patent protection for domestic and foreign inventors and economies is still …-1932. Therefore, we study the potential influence of patent laws, institutional quality, and primary and secondary schooling. Controls …

uses patent renewal data. Employing Cox regression technique, we explore the question what factors (such as patent …’s technological class and patentee’s nationality) impact patent survival. The concluding part of this dissertation summarizes the main … results and points out tentative directions for further research using this patent data set. …

based on a novel dataset constructed from multiple sources: inventor surveys, the United States Patent and Trademark Office … strategies. In particular, firms are more likely to use a patent for strategic defensive purposes when they have larger amounts …

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is overburdened with a large volume of patent applications while … having limited resources to conduct patent examinations. The patent examination process is too long and the quality of issued … patent. In these prediction markets, traders buy and sell bets for the outcomes of patent examinations. Our proposed …

industry manage uncertain andfrequently overlapping patent rights. In practice, patent rightsare highly imperfect legal … disputes.This has two consequences. First, firms facing low status ambiguityare less likely to be involved in patent litigation … than are firmsfacing high status ambiguity. Patent litigation events representfailures to resolve patent disputes out of …

country level R&D and patent information, I present efficiency scores based on intertemporal frontier estimation for the … country level R&D and patent information, I present efficiency scores based on intertemporal frontier estimation for the …

The dissertation analyses patent valuation methods with a special focus on the income approach. Two alternative …