Researchers studying innovation increasingly use indicators based on patent citations. However, it is well known that … not all citations originate from applicants--patent examiners contribute to citations listed in issued patents--and that … average patent, and that 40 per cent of patents have all citations added by examiners. We use multivariate regression and …

Am 22./23. Mai 1990 fand in Madrid die erste Europäische Konferenz für Patent und Innovation (Patinnova) statt. Der … wettbewerbsbeschränkende Wirkung des Patents nicht zu Lasten des stimulierenden Innovationswettbewerbs auszudehnen. Das Europäische … durch einen möglichst umfassenden Patentschutz an. Es wurde die Forderung gestellt, diejenigen Elemente des Patent- und …

, vom Patent abweichendes europäisches Schutzrecht abzusichern. …

industries today, patents may actually discourage investment in innovation for fear of winding up on the losing side of a patent …Do patents behave substantially like property rights in tangible assets, in that they encourage development and … innovation? This article notes that historical evidence, cross-country evidence, economic experiments, and estimates of net …

heavily on the valuation of patent rights, as this gives a possible measurement of innovation output. …In 2004 the German Patent and Trademark Office commissioned the Ifo Institute to deliver a research report on the topic … "Identification of Available and Desirable Indicators for Patent Systems, Patenting Processes and Patent Rights". - The report …

had profound effects on the jurisprudential development of the legal regimes within its purview - especially the patent … of legal authority will yield a clearer, more coherent, and more predictable legal infrastructure for the patent law … interpretation of language defining a patent's scope - we conclude that, on this indicator at least, the record is decidedly mixed …

Patents are a subset of the larger field of law known as intellectual property law. At its most basic level …