introduce measures that leverage patent similarity to provide insight into innovation and intellectual property law issues of …We introduce and describe the Patent Similarity Data set, comprising vector space model-based similarity scores for … data set, joining it with other available patent data, and using it in their research …

We develop an index that compares the quality of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) applications by considering citations … is decreasing over time. We find that the patent quality of firms increases in R&D stocks but decreases with the …

PCT patent applications reach only a third of the non-Chinese quality benchmark, the extension towards domestic and self … are to be interpreted as a measure of patent quality. …

Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Until … now, there exists little evidence on whether patent citations are a good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses … the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a measure of technology flows. It uses information from the Community …

technologies within outcomes. We conclude that measurement of patent quality is highly sensitive to both stakeholder viewpoint and …The ‘quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality … is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share …

Patent counts are very imperfect measures of innovative output. This paper discusses how additional data-the number of … years a patent is renewed and the number of countries in which protection for the same invention is sought - can be used to … improve on counts in studies which require a measure of the extent of innovation. A simple renewal based weighting scheme is …