Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - 2011
This study investigates whether standard patent measures for the importance and basicness of patents are able to … distinguish between “wacky” patents and a control group of randomly drawn patents. Our findings show that forward citations are … good predictors of importance. However, the “wacky” patents have higher originality, generality and average citation lags …