implementation of the Community Patent (COMPAT). The econometric results and simulations presented in this paper suggest that, thanks … relative patenting costs for applicants while generating more income for the European Patent Office and most national patent … offices. The loss of economic rents (€400 million would be lost by patent attorneys, translators and lawyers) and the drop of …

This paper provides new evidence about the budgetary consequences - for patent offices - of the coexistence of the … forthcoming Unitary Patent (UP) with the current European Patent (EP). Simulation results illustrate a dilemma between high UP … renewal fees to ensure enough financial income for all national patent offices (NPOs) and low UP renewal fees to make the UP …

This paper entitled "Patent as a motivation of starting a new entrepreneurial activity of high potential" based on a … patents by the inventors and tries to answer the question whether the patent can be a strong motive for the patentee to start … most of them being optimistic of new job creation, 2) a smaller number of patentees transferred or sold their patent rights …

This paper analyzes how injunctions relate to patent hold-up problems. To this end, we present a simple model of … licensing negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm in the shadow of litigation. More specifically, we consider … the situation in which an injunction is granted as a matter of course if a patent is found valid and infringed upon in …

The article attempts to show the role of the patent system in the internationalization of diffusion of technical … knowledge. Its purpose is to analyse, use of international technical knowledge made available through patent systems, by Polish … so-called patent citations, included in the technical documentation submitted for the protection of inventions …