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An examination of the intertemporal returns of patented inventions
Giummo, Jesse - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 8, pp. 1312-1319
This paper examines the intertemporal returns of patented inventions using estimates of patent value obtained from German employee inventors’ compensation records. The paper finds heterogeneity in the mean age and dispersion of the annual returns by technology and cumulative patent value....
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Conflict Resolution, Public Goods and Patent Thickets
Harhoff, Dietmar; von Graevenitz, Georg; Wagner, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are...
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Patent litigation in Europe
Cremers, Katrin; Ernicke, Max; Gaessler, Fabian; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions - Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK - covering cases filed during the period 2000-2008. For our analysis, we assemble a new dataset that contains detailed information at the case, litigant, and patent level for...
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The effect of patent litigation on firm performance: Evidence for Germany
Schliessler, Paula - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
I analyse how patent litigation outcome in Germany affects the performance of the disputing firms by interpreting changes in a firm's credit rating as a proxy for changes in firm performance. The results match theoretical considerations on the functioning of the bifurcated German patent...
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Patent litigation settlement in Germany: Why parties settle during trial
Cremers, Katrin; Schliessler, Paula - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper looks at the decision to settle patent litigation in Germany from a new angle by focusing on detailed data on within-trial actions and motivations by plain-tiff, defendant and the courts. Using a new dataset covering about 80% of all patent litigation cases in Germany between 2000 and...
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Patent Litigation Insurance
Duchêne, Anne - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2015
Empirical studies have found that high litigation costs often discourage small firms from investing in R&D, as they fear their patent will be infringed and they will not be able to afford litigation. As a solution, firms have been encouraged to purchase insurance policies which, by covering...
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Intellectual property rights as strategic assets: the case of european patent opposition in the telecommunication industry
Calderini, Mario; Scellato, Giuseppe - KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and … - 2004
The paper empirically investigates the phenomenon of patent litigation through the analysis of the all population of European patents’ opposition cases in the telecommunication industry. We recover the complete legal history of each dispute and the patent portfolios of the firms involved. We...
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Conflict resolution, public goods and patent thickets
Harhoff, Dietmar; Graevenitz, Georg von; Wagner, Stefan - European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) - 2012
Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839528
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Innovation, R&D and Productivity in the Costa Rican ICT Sector: A Case Study
Monges-Gonzalez, Ricardo; Hewitt, John - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …
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How Are Technologies Patented in Developed and Developing Countries of EU?
Jemala, Marek; Jemala, Ľubomír - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2015 (2015) 1, pp. 27-44
In recent years, it is not only a researcher, or a developer, who is important for technology innovation, but … innovation requires cooperation within the business microenvironment and supportive legal, political, economic, social or … is, how big is the difference in technological innovation/patenting between developed and developing countries of the EU …
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