forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications ("blocking citations"). Empirical …. This finding adds to the patent value literature by showing that different types of patent citations carry different …

the current European patent system, one of the most advanced, complex, and contested economic systems in Europe. The … conclusions elaborate on some normative implications regarding the weaknesses of the European patent system, and underline the …

We examine the role of utility models (UM) in patent filing strategies. With an extensive patent family data from … European countries, we explore the structures and characteristics of patent families, which include UMs. A simple typology of … patent families with UM members is introduced. We document that the geographical scope of most patent families with UM …

forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications (“blocking citations”). Empirical …. This finding adds to the patent value literature by showing that different types of patent citations carry different …