EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database PATSTAT. Based on the final dataset, covering about 1,700 world’s top corporate … R&D investors and their patenting activity, we find that about one-fifth focus their patent-relevant R&D activity in …-based technological advantages to expand their market penetration (HBE strategy). With patent data from the late 2010s, we find a further …

The appropriateness of patent systems has been largely discussed and has led to substantial theoretical debates and … the disclosure issue, on patent management hidden strategies, and on patent institutions and controversies …