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 …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the 'patent thicket …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner's ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …

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 …

. Compliance with the code of conduct will shield patent holders from the gaze of competition law and, at the same time, will …

The intersection of patent law with the provisions on digital signatures is characterized by two problems: the … compulsory licensing under competition law, compulsory licensing under patent law is an appropriate means in order to solve the … public domain scheme that the Government can establish pursuant to section 13 of the German Patengesetz (Patent Act) in cases …

' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …

find that the patent system itself is frequently used for defensive publishing. Our findings also challenge contributions … connecting defensive publishing to patent races …

respect of 3D printing studios, and aligning this with the legal issues that may emerge in the context of patent, copyright …