The European Patent System is facing major challenges resulting from an extension of patentable subject matter leading … to an increasing number of patent applications. The European Patent Office has responded with admirable flexibility, but … opposition figures and changing behaviour of patent applicants. Stefan M. Wagner analyses problems associated with institutional …

survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

significant estimates are all related to firms with no patent applications prior to obtaining support. Moreover, we estimate that …