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 …

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical …

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 …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …

This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …

The interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has been …

Many high technology goods are based on standards that require access to several patents that are owned by different IP …