, however measured, and the range of activities conducted by them. Is size positively related to total returns to shareholders …? If so, does this involve gains in efficiency or transfers of wealth to shareholders from other constituencies, or maybe … shareholders and customers, or can it work against their interests in ways that may ultimately impede shareholder value as well …

challenges that involve divestitures, mergers, and acquisitions. Activist shareholders are playing an increasingly important yet …

, and limiting the role of foreign inventors. However, the role of the extension of patent life in the early 1990s has …

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 …