We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent … holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U ….S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data account for a large fraction of the cumulative value over all observations …

While it is clear that there has been a "regional inversion" in American patent activity over the past 25 years (i …

nonmember countries during 2000 and 2004. A unique dataset was compiled that matches patent applications at the European Patent …

forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … imprecise measure of patent value. -- Market Value ; Patents ; Citations ; Patent Value …There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been …

steadily declined, the market value of patents made a large and sustained gain in the new millennium. An additional patent per …

aircraft patents and induce key patent owners to enter a cross-licensing patent pool. We show that this cross …The prevailing historical accounts of the formation of the US aircraft “patent pool” in 1917 assume the US government … necessarily intervened to alleviate a patent hold-up among private aircraft manufacturers. We show these accounts to be …