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 …

asymmetry across countries, granting patents to technology in the emerging economy of China can serve as a signal of technology …-in-differences estimates using 4226 China–U.S. patent dyads and comparable U.S. patents support our hypotheses …

-centered open innovation, characterized by a for-profit motive and the interplay between patents and contracts, resulting in …

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively … reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the …

(TDs). Using a large-scale dataset combining data from the EPO-PATSTAT database and ORBIS-IP and containing patents applied …

We use exogenous variation in the strength of trade secrets protection to show that a relative weakening of patents …