), technology-seeking (TS), and/or market-seeking (MS) - do the MNE employ? and (3) What are the typical patterns in pursuing … EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database PATSTAT. Based on the final dataset, covering about 1,700 world’s top corporate … R&D investors and their patenting activity, we find that about one-fifth focus their patent-relevant R&D activity in …

regions; second, attributes representing the distance between the headquarters in Germany and the affiliates in the Czech … der regionalen Verteilung multinationaler Unternehmen in Deutschland und deren Tochtergesellschaften in der Tschechischen … Unternehmenszentralen in Deutschland und den Tochtergesellschaften in der Tschechischen Republik darstellen; und drittens, Charakteristika …

on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of … of received knowledge spillovers, we found no higher probability of publicly supported innovations for firms in Germany … Umsatzes mit neuen Produkten gemacht. Der Technologietransfer von den öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen wird dabei …

technology-specific patentability standards and their role in furthering the goals of the patent system …The patent system gives the courts discretion to tailor patentability standards flexibly across technologies to provide … practical, non-research-based use at the time patent protection is sought. The fear is that an early-stage patent on a research …

in the patent doctrine of contributory infringement. Previous scholars have explored the potential for intellectual …

largely satisfied with today's patent system while the electronics, software and Internet industries are not. This article … inventive process for pharmaceuticals. Our patent system, however, has no analogous requirement for the other fields. In them … biotech industry may be closing the gap in early-stage patenting. This article suggests two ways to improve our patent system …