manufacturing in 2000, it turns out that patents are important to protect intellectual property in the market, whereas secrecy seems …

holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U ….S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data account for a large fraction of the cumulative value over all observations …

We describe the transfer of patents in late 19th- and early 20th- century Germany using a new and comprehensive … numbers and as a share of patents in force. In total, about eight percent of patents were transferred at least once during … their existence. Many transactions involved the transfer of patents with an above-average quality from individual inventors …

venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncer-tainty and therefore rely on patents … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …

venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …

We examine ownership patterns of German university-invented patents before and after the abolition of the "professors …-owned and firm-owned patents to university-owned patents, which becomes increasingly strong over the years. Differences in the …

ownership and the threat of a firm's patent applications being blocked by competitors' patents lead to increased patenting and … markets. -- Licensing ; blocking patents ; discrete and complex technologies ; technology competition …