Today it is generally accepted that innovation, knowledge creation, and the diffusion of new knowledge are crucial … factors for economic growth at the regional, national, as well as supra-national level, and that successful innovation is …

This paper assesses the impact of adopting a post-grant review institution in the US patent system by comparing the … 'opposition careers' of European Patent Office (EPO) equivalents of litigated US patents to those of a control group of EPO … employing these different methods in our data analysis. We find that EPO equivalents of US litigated patent applications are …