patentable items from scientific companies. For EPO patents, this role appears even more important than that played by R …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we study whether the two instruments for protecting IP exhibit …) between the patents and trademarks owned by the same firm and we then investigate whether such concordance exert any effect on …

Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … of patentees, by observing the entire population of British patents granted up to the patent reforms of 1852. I find …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …

innovation model. We show that pre-grant publication of patents lead to fewer applications and fewer inventions, but it raises … welfare as well. -- R&D ; patents ; patent systems ; pre-grant patent publication ; patenting decision ; spillover ; consumer …

the market. At the invention level, our findings confirm that patents from firms engaged in science are more frequently … of science links. -- Innovation ; cooperation ; patents ; forward citation ; science ; industrial innovation …

patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …&D Collaboration ; Knowledge Exchange ; Patents ; Innovation ; Count Data Models …

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In "Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue …