This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

positively correlated with technological quality as defined by the patent offices. This premise is taken for granted in classical … defined by the patent offices - on private patent value. To do so, the theoretical links between private values of patents …, technological invention quality, incentives to oppose patents before the European Patent Office (EPO), and observable patent …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

called Patent Trolls. Activity of Patent Trolls companies can significantly contribute to inhibit the diffusion process in …. Today we may risk statement that over-regulation in the field of patent protection in conjunction with the unfair practices … of companies Patent Trolls may lead to stop the development of Knowledge Based Economy. The purpose of this article is to …

correlations of the patent value indicators with technological innovation are noisy, this study provides stronger empirical support …I provide empirical evidence that quality-adjusted patents can identify technological innovation in small and medium …-sized enterprises. Survey data on commercialization of patents is related to patent quality indicators (patent renewal, patent family …

The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains … at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new measure of litigiousness using patent opposition data. We find that the … degree of litigiousness and the density of patent thickets negatively affect the likelihood of firms entering new TDs. Across …

in spillover benefits which can provide dynamic efficiency gains to offset the static efficiency losses of the patent … required is, in Australia, a scintilla. This evolution in innovation policy seems never to have been evaluated – case law … decisions reducing the quantum of inventiveness required in Australia for grant of a standard patent. It commences with a short …

patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …