model patent system, this study illustrates that it is possible to create a useful legal, policy, and institutional … Austria, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, and Italy; reasons behind the composition, including any …

between the propensity to jointly own a patent and proximity in the product market; b) joint patents are associated with less …

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 …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … participation of a patent's original examiner in the opposition division as an instrument. We find a disciplinary effect of … invalidation: Affected inventors file 20% fewer patent applications in the decade after the decision. This effect is entirely …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … participation of a patent's original examiner in the opposition division as an instrument. We find a disciplinary effect of … invalidation: Affected inventors file 20% fewer patent applications in the decade after the decision. This effect is entirely …

: USA, Japan and Europe. In each economic area, we use information from two international patent systems to construct the … technological proximity for 240 international firms. In particular, we select firms’ patents from United States Patent and … Trademarks Office (USPTO) data and European Patent Office (EPO) data. In order to compute the technological proximity, we follow …

, is their call for a more responsible behaviour of patent owners in the exercise of their patent rights. In light of the … the current patent system, there is a need to reconceptualize patent rights, all the more so in the life sciences area. A … patent can no longer be viewed as a title giving (almost) complete freedom to exclude others from use, but rather as a …

In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of … industry specific differences in the patent system from both a legal and economic perspective. The present article attempts to … that current European patent law holds substantial potential for technology-specific application. Even though the European …