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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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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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The relationship among innovative output, productivity, and profitability: a test comparing USPTO and EPO data
Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - 2007
already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). For most … this purpose, we use a unique data set which collects balance sheet items and patent information from EPO and USPTO. After … only patents with the EPO, along with larger firm size, have a statistically significant relationship with productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263794
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The role of patents and secrecy for intellectual property protection: theory and evidence
Mosel, Malte - 2012
Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical findings that secrecy is considered more important for appropriating returns, recent theories predict that firms keep their most important inventions secret. This article...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294735
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Market and Technology Access Through Firm Acquisitions: Beyond One Size Fits All
Hussinger, Katrin; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008
Firm acquisitions have been shown to serve as a way to gain access to international markets, technological assets, products or other valuable resources of the target firm. Given this heterogeneity of takeover motivations and the skewness of the distribution of the deal value we show whether and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298047
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Building and Blocking: The Two Faces of Technology Acquisition
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2008
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and objective for firm acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand, patents can be attractive because of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298053
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Building and Blocking: The Two Faces of Technology Acquisition
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2009
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and objective for firm acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand, patents can be attractive because of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298687
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Corporate science in the patent system: An analysis of the semiconductor technology
Della Malva, Antonio; Hussinger, Katrin - 2010
publications by corporations challenge the novelty of patent applications at the European Patent Office (EPO) significantly more … than other pieces of prior art. Detailed information from the EPO patent examination procedure allows us to show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303805
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The market for patents in Europe
Gambardella, Alfonso; Giuri, Paola; Luzzi, Alessandra - 2006
By using the PatVal-EU dataset we find that the most important determinant of patent licensing is firm size. Patent breadth, value, protection, and other factors suggested by the literature also have an impact, but not as important. In addition, most of these factors affect the willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328536
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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/10010280833