successful negotiations involving a granted patent with those involving a pending patent. Similarly, we identify the disclosure … effect by comparing the probability of successful negotiations involving a pending patent with those involving no patent. We … patent instead of a pending patent are 10 per cent more likely to be successfully completed (compared with an average …

and rising its market value. In Poland the awareness of advantages concerning patent protection of inventions is very low … problems that one has to face if one wants to grant and enforce the patent protection in Poland. Particularly the arguments for … and against patenting inventions are presented, requirements that patented invention has to fulfil, problems to claim …

for industrial creativity that can rival the northeast. This study shows that this viewpoint, based on patent activity, is …

decades. Instruments of intellectual property (first and foremost the patent) have disseminated in many domains of research …

not patents affect the direction of research but that scientists’ understanding of patent law; their recent experience …