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 …

invention (through patents) and the clinical trials data submitted for market approval (through data exclusivity). Patent …

This work investigates the relationship between proxies of innovation activities, such as patents and trademarks, and … provide a rather complete picture of the innovation activities of Italian firms, in terms of patents and trademarks, and we … addition, and to our knowledge novel, we propose a measure of concordance (or proximity) between the patents and trademarks …

innovation model. We show that pre-grant publication of patents lead to fewer applications and fewer inventions, but it raises … welfare as well. -- R&D ; patents ; patent systems ; pre-grant patent publication ; patenting decision ; spillover ; consumer …

number of research scholars) are transformed into research outputs in the form of publications and patents. We expect … application. -- Academic reaesrch ; patents ; Bayh-Dole act ; India …

research that was held by the Greek Industrial Property Organization (O.B.I.), investigates the fate of Patents that the … patents by the inventors and tries to answer the question whether the patent can be a strong motive for the patentee to start …

successful than others in terms of the impact of their inventions on future patents. If, on the other hand, research units source … ; Scientific Productivity ; Research Funding ; Academic Patents ; Technology Transfer …

patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …&D Collaboration ; Knowledge Exchange ; Patents ; Innovation ; Count Data Models …