This paper utilizes a data set of over 208,000 U.S. patents applied for between 1975 and 2010 to study development of … towards the strategic use of patents. But the development of patenting strategies continued even after 2000 with semiconductor … companies preferred the production of valuable patents, but patenting strategies can differ vastly even among companies …

private economic value of patents. The estimated mean of our patent value distribution is higher than 3 million Euros, the …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue. …

Patents have long been regarded as the ‘gold standard’ of intellectual property protection. In “Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue. …

The Italian and European regulatory framework for patents would benefit from further improvements in order to foster …

The patent system makes organized markets in patents with transparent prices possible. Such prices are here …

The question of how prices on patents rights should be determined in impersonal exchanges is examined in a laboratory … market with impersonal exchange mechanisms and prices in the traditionally hierarchical and personal exchange of patents. A … mechanisms for organized market on patents with transparent prices. It also shows that intermediaries (traders) are critical to …