This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

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

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is twofold. First, we show how the patent … policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

. Using a binary size measure, we find strong support for the traditional view that firms patent their most important …

financial information and patent data for public limited companies in Europe as well as country level variables, we apply a …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner?s ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …

competition towards competition based on technical inventions, a worldwide surge in patenting took place, and the ?patent thicket …

which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents … allowed to expire before their full term. The higher an invention?s economic value estimate was, the more the relevant patent …

We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …