shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … information on the economic value of patents. The result further suggests that the total number of forward citations can be an …

shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … information on the economic value of patents. The result further suggests that the total number of forward citations can be an …

in weighting patent counts or in ranking patents to focus on the most important ones. The main objective of this paper is … market for the patented invention and the approach uses five different patent features (forward citations, grant decisions …, families, renewals, and oppositions) that (1) have been found positively correlated with the value of patents in the literature …

classifications. It further provides a network of patent citations, thus indicating how patents build from existing knowledge and …

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 …

patents; however, most patent databases contain no information on whether patents have been commercialized, i.e., whether … relating traditional patent quality indicators (patent renewal, patent equivalents and forward citations) to patent … commercialization variables. For this purpose, I use a unique database on Swedish patents that includes information on whether patents …

creation alliances lead to more valuable patents as they receive significantly more forward citations per patent. Knowledge …

possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora … is important for the successful commercialization of patents by using a detailed patent database. The database contains … inventors and external firms are often crucial for the successful commercialization of patents. …