Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract …

The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be … considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change …

the costs and benefits of the patent system, the use of patents as innovation indicators, and the need for more research …The role patents play for innovation is not clear, but patenting activity has increased in the last decades. This … article reviews the empirical evidence on traditional and novel roles of patents to assess their impacts on innovation in …

on the enjoyment of fundamental rights while granting injunctions on patents. This paper argues that the Indian courts … public interest aspect and human rights implications while granting injunctions in patent litigation. Moreover, it asserts … that the courts should exercise prudence in granting injunctive relief in cases involving patent infringement, and take …

mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both …

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 …) estimators. Estimates using system GMM estimators show a moderate degree of persistence in EPO patents per capita with an …

number of research scholars) are transformed into research outputs in the form of publications and patents. We expect …

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the … government, in addition to taxes and transfers, controls the fraction of innovations that are granted patents. The model predicts …