This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …

parents from 36 countries globally and their patent holdings in 36 European countries, we provide insight into the … of royalties, R&D incentives, and transfer pricing rules help to explain the patent-location choices of multinationals. …

This paper develops a sequential application-grant framework to analyze competing explanations for the two U.S. patent … argues that the 1990s intellectual property regime shift lowered examination standards and caused the 1990s patent surge …. Results from the empirical models reject the ¿friendly court¿ hypothesis as the primary source of the eighties patent surge …

In this paper, we give an overview of the differences in German patent legislations between 1815 and 1876. German … patent laws differed in particular with regard to the application and approval system, the treatment of foreign applicants …, and patent fees. Differences in the former two categories provide an explanation why the number of patents was …