This paper investigates the determinants of EPO (European Patent Office) patent applications per capita using a panel … of 22 OECD countries with data measured as five-year averages for the period 1980-1999. The patent production function is … per capita. Business enterprise R&D (BERD) expenditures are more effective in generating patent applications than public …

look at the development that has taken place in other jurisdictions and adapt the patent law to local conditions when … developing tests or guidelines in a manner that is compatible with the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade …

The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light … already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). For most … this purpose, we use a unique data set which collects balance sheet items and patent information from EPO and USPTO. After …

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner?s ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …

. Under speed-dependent evolution, a patent-based system will fail to target socially optimal innovation size. The overall … competitors. The paper examines the capacity for decentralised patent-based incentive mechanisms to result in socially optimal … incompatibility between the dynamics of the patent system and the dynamics of the resistance problem under both types of evolution …

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented … firms increasingly file patent applications that are based on inventor activities located in emerging economies, often …

earnings for a patent grant and for highly-cited patents a longer-lasting premium of 30% in earnings three years later. Similar … medium-term premia accrue to inventors who initially hold the patent rights, although they forego earnings at the time of the …

economy only half of the West German level. Accordingly, the intensity of patent application and the innovativeness of …

fluorinatedgreenhouse gas emissions. Using patents as an indicator of innovations and patent citations as a proxy for knowledge flows the … across patent applicant- and firm-types is analyzed. We find that most environmental patents originate from Germany and the …