I analyse how patent litigation outcome in Germany affects the performance of the disputing firms by interpreting … the functioning of the bifurcated German patent litigation system: The separation of litigation and invalidity decisions …, resulting in invalidity decisions taking much longer than decisions on infringement, provides patent holders with a window of …

I analyse how patent litigation outcome in Germany a ffects the performance of the disputing fi rms by interpreting … on the functioning of the bifurcated German patent litigation system. The separation of litigation and invalidity … decisions, resulting in invalidity decisions taking much longer than decisions on infringement, provides patent holders with a …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner?s ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …

A low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are … supported by estimates from litigation studies suggesting that the majority of patents granted by the U.S. patent office should … not have been issued. This paper proposes a new Bayesian method for measuring patent quality, based on twin patent …

a plausibly exogenous change to patent duration. Second, the nature of the law change meant that the patent duration … change was heterogeneous across patent classes. Using both patent counts and citation-weighted counts, I am able to take … advantage of the TRIPS-induced law change to empirically estimate the impact of patent duration on innovation. I find evidence …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

The paper studies the patent productivity of scientists over their life cycle. The incentives for patenting and for … at the end of the scientific career. In contrast, the analytical model given here suggests an increase of patent … productivity over the life time. In the empirical part the patents of nearly 1000 German patent active professors are analyzed. The …

The patent system is a central tool in innovation policy. The prospect of monopolistic pricing conferred by patent … markups for patent-protected products. Using an original dataset that links a broad range of consumer products to the patents … that protect them, we study the impact of patent protection on product prices. The empirical strategy exploits exogenous …