survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

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 …

Patents are widely used in the literature as a measure of firm-level innovation. It is regarded that patents improve a …

exploitation of their patent, alleging several reasons for that. -- entrepreneurship ; patent rights ; and innovation …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 …

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 …

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 …