system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on …This paper analyzes firms' choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent … firms' decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been granted by the EPO. These costs have been …

One feature of the European patent system that is heavily criticized nowadays is related to its complex fragmentation … and the induced cost burden for applicants. Once a patent is granted by the EPO, the assignee must validate (and often … objective of this paper is to assess to what extent validation and renewal fees as well as translation costs affect the …

The paper compares and contrasts the patent-based indicators, traditionally used to assess a country’s technological … being misleading. Empirically, the paper is based on the statistical information on patent activity of the top-10 patenting … countries. It concludes with a clear demonstration of the need to employ a complex of patent-related indicators to make …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

This paper examines the effect of mandatory pre-grant patent publications on the innovation of venture capital (VC … relative improvements in innovation outputs for companies whose pre-AIPA patent applications received more "revise and resubmit … overlapping inventions, or in other words, uncertainty in the scope of protection companies could obtain from patents. My findings …

This paper analyses the role of patent-filing fees requested by the member states of the European Patent Convention … that the transfer rate of domestic priority filings to the European Patent Office (EPO) increases with the duration of … the EPO or at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to assess the innovative performance of countries …

), which aims to reduce the translation requirements for patent validation procedures in 15 out of 34 national patent offices …. With an average translation cost saving of €3,600 per patent, the total savings for the business sector amount to about … €220 millions. The fee elasticity of patents being about ‐0.4, one may expect an increase in patent filings of eight to 12 …

model patent system, this study illustrates that it is possible to create a useful legal, policy, and institutional …