I examine the joint patent designation-renewal behavior of the EPO patent applicants during 1978 to 1996, using both … nonparametric technique and a parametric model. The European patents through the EPO are substantially more valuable than patents … of the EPO patent families. The value of patent rights increases with the economics size of the country and has a …

This paper utilizes the renewal records of the EPO (European Patent Office) patents and estimates the patent value … addition, the utilization of EPO-route patent renewal records in our study corrects the possible data inconsistancy problem in … Pakes (1986). However, the quality and the private value of the EPO patents in our sample are substantially higher …

Rights (TRIPS) agreements. In the EU region, the establishment of the European Patent Office (EPO) has allowed for multi …

use the OECD-REGPAT dataset, that includes patent applications made by European inventors and applicants to EPO in the …