A current refrain in patent policy discourse is that “overly-broad” patents of “dubious validity” retard innovation. We …

Critics claim that patent screening is ineffective, granting low-quality patents that impose unnecessary social costs ….S. data, indicate that screening is highly imperfect, with almost half of all patents issued on inventions that do not require …

This chapter examines the main types of industrial property rights (IPR): patents, utility models and industrial … (patents, scientific articles, etc. ...) must be performed. However, before starting the search to retrieve all the relevant …

is a general positive effect, subsequent innovation show a low degree of novelty and are close to the litigated patents …

innovation, trade competitiveness, employment mobility and economic growth. We briefly overview the literature on patents and … discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the present and recent proposals for the future of the European Union Patents …

size, we build a quality factor jointly driving all indicators for 9255 patents. We then test the significance of this … robust and significant link between patent quality and value in samples of discrete and complex technology patents, there is … no significant link for patents that are essential to technological standards. Consistently, neither the quality factor …