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 …

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 …

likelihood of patent renewal. Since the owners know more about the patents than potential external financiers, there is a problem …I apply a survival model to a detailed dataset of Swedish patents to estimate how different factors affect the … venture capital. The empirical results show that patents which have received soft government financing in the R&D-phase have a …

look at the development that has taken place in other jurisdictions and adapt the patent law to local conditions when … appropriate to Sri Lanka is twofold. First, it is most likely to prevent the issuance of patents on trivial or incremental …

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 …This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information …

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 … high-tech industries, patents represent an outcome of the production process and their number can be taken as a proxy for a …

innovation while the mere size of the universities is unimportant. Differences in the effect on innovative output can be found …

nanomaterials. We analyse European Patent Office data at the German district level (NUTS-3) on applications for nanomaterial patents …Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to …

proposed relies on count data models, uses patents as innovation performance indicators, and exploits original data regarding …The paper focuses on the role of Science Parks (SPs) as seedbeds of innovation. It investigates whether and to what … controlling for the existence of innovation lags. Parks' first mover disadvantages also emerge, as well as non-negligible matching …