competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the 'patent thicket … manufacturing in 2000, it turns out that patents are important to protect intellectual property in the market, whereas secrecy seems …

is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent … indicate that 12% of infringement cases in which the patent’s validity is challenged produce such ‘invalid but infringed …’ decisions. We also show that having to challenge a patent’s validity in separate court proceedings means that more resource …