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First-to-invent versus first-to-file: International patent law harmonization and innovation

Miyagiwa, Kaz - 2007

The U.S. has been under pressure to abandon the unique first-to-invent feature of its patent law for awarding patents … innovation. We evaluate this argument in a dynamic stochastic model of a patent race. The result generally supports the …

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Weltmarktpatente: Strukturen und deren Veränderungen

Frietsch, Rainer; Köhler, Florian; Blind, Knut - 2008

Es wurde mit den "Transnationalen Patenten" ein neues Konzept zur Bewertung der technologischen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Volkswirtschaften vorgestellt, das eine bessere internationale Vergleichbarkeit als mit bisherigen Ansätzen zulässt. Im Gegensatz zu nationalen Anmeldungen oder...

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What Determines Patents per Capita in OECD Countries?

Falk, Martin - 2004

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 …

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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function

Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010

In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and number of research scholars) are transformed into...

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Big patents, small secrets: how firms protect inventions when R&D outcome is heterogeneous

Mosel, Malte - 2011

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

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Identification of available and desirable indicators for patent systems, patenting processes and patent rights: research project for the German Patent and Trademark Office

Lachenmaier, Stefan - 2005

In 2004 the German Patent and Trademark Office commissioned the Ifo Institute to deliver a research report on the topic … "Identification of Available and Desirable Indicators for Patent Systems, Patenting Processes and Patent Rights". - The report … but also giving consideration to legal and business aspects. This includes the valuation of the patent system itself, the …