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Patent litigation in Europe
Cremers, Katrin (contributor) - 2013
We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions – Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK – covering cases filed during the period 2000-2008. For our analysis, we assemble a new dataset that contains detailed information at the case, litigant, and patent level for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128711
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The Porous Court-Agency Border in Patent Law
Vishnubhakat, Saurabh - 2019
The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial, setting became overtly substitutionary in the America Invents Act. No longer content to encourage court litigants to rely on Patent Office expertise for faster, cheaper, and more accurate validity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899895
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Predictability and Nonobviousness in Patent Law after KSR
Cotropia, Christopher Anthony - 2014
In KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., the Supreme Court addressed the doctrine of nonobviousness, the ultimate question of patentability, for the first time in thirty years. In addition to mandating a flexible approach to deciding nonobviousness, the KSR opinion also introduced two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154281
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Innovation, credit constraints, and trade credit : evidence from a cross-country study
Bönte, Werner; Nielen, Sebastian - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008652580
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Product innovation and trade credit demand and supply : evidence from European countries ; conference paper
Nielen, Sebastian - 2013
This study addresses the relationship between product innovation and the demand and supply of trade credit. Theoretical … as well as empirical studies are used to derive the hypothesis of a positive link between product innovation and trade …. Basically the estimation results confirm that introducing a product innovation is positively related with demand and provision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338387
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Policies supporting innovation in the European Union in the context of the Lisbon strategy and the Europe 2020 strategy
Gajewsk, Marek - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 20 (2017) 2, pp. 109-127
In the context of increasing globalization, global competition and rapid change the EU sees innovation and its … commercialization as an effective way to build long-term global competitive advantage. Innovation policy is a link between research and … energy. This paper presents the evolution, conditions and objectives of the innovation policy of the European, and describes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869966
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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition
Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033571
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition
Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996418
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Cutting too close? : design protection and innovation in fashion goods
Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012
Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488919