This paper analyzes firms' choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent … system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on … firms' decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been granted by the EPO. These costs have been …

This paper analyses the role of patent-filing fees requested by the member states of the European Patent Convention … that the transfer rate of domestic priority filings to the European Patent Office (EPO) increases with the duration of … the EPO or at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to assess the innovative performance of countries …

This paper analyses the role of patent-filing fees requested by the member states of the European Patent Convention … that the transfer rate of domestic priority filings to the European Patent Office (EPO) increases with the duration of … the EPO or at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to assess the innovative performance of countries …

witnessed by the fact that patent applications are very skewed in the covered trade names and patent thickness expands over time …. Conversely, the number of patents protecting new drugs approved by the FDA which draw upon government-sponsored research - as … pharmaceutical firms, between patent portfolio and profit margins. …