(1996-2009). We identify foreign inventive activity by applying the ‘cross-border-ownership concept’ to transnational patent …

technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …-CRIOS database, covering all patent applications made to the European Patent Office (EPO), we try to model the systemic nature of …

Patent data provide a rich set of information which can be used for comparative studies and trend analysis. The paper … analysis. This paper discusses different indicators of technological specialisation, concentration, and patent quality are … analysed, including Revealed Technological Advantage (RTA) index, patent share, C20 concentration index, and Gini concentration …

‘performed' R&D and ‘extra-mural' R&D, and focuses on R&D productivity and patent quality as key indicators of innovation. The … performance in patent quality and sales; (b) government expenditure on R&D and extra-mural R&D drive international patent … collaboration, and (c) the latter is a crucial determinant of patent quality …

affect emerging market patent systems.The paper will conclude that the discussions about the current surge of emerging market … patent filings reveal a fundamental tension between two different patent discourses: a more conventional/legal narrative … two facets of patents, can a meaningful response to the current emerging market patent tsunami be developed …

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 …

The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed … system starts with an initial exclusive patent period that is much shorter, and then includes renewable periods of …

attendant constellation of tacit knowledge regarding the interpretation and application of the information in the patent. The … through the patent system also provides important stability to attendant tacit knowledge. Patent doctrines regarding prior art … patent procurement and enforcement must take such effects into account …