&D. Yet the propensity of semiconductor firms to patent has risen dramatically since the mid-1980s. We explore this apparent … firms during 1979-95. The results suggest that the 1980s strengthening of US patent rights spawned "patent portfolio races …

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

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …. -- heterogeneous inventions ; innovation size ; intellectual property rights ; patents ; patent filing fees ; patentability standards …

strategy reveals there was an almost universal drop in patent social value in the second half of the 1990s, signaling a shift … strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data … companies increasing their focus on patent value relative to companies from other industries. On average, aerospace and software …

China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally … comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent expansion constitutes the rise of a new … internationally comparable, quality-adjusted figures for applications made under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). We show that …

uncertainty affect firms' strategy toward knowledge appropriation — capturing of economic value from their knowledge assets — and … property strategy, we examine this question using a novel panel data covering 362 firms and organizations in the knowledge … community. These findings highlight the role of patent grant as a potential lever to shape firms' knowledge processes and long …