acquired company. If inventors would respond with a decline of their patent productivity or departure from the firm this can be … stayed with the merged entity; 3.) M&As trigger inventor mobility, but do not lead to a decline in patent productivity if …

acquired company. If inventors wouldrespond with a decline of their patent productivity or departure from the firm thiscan be … stayed with the merged entity; 3.) M&As trigger inventormobility, but do not lead to a decline in patent productivity if …

acquired company. If inventors would respond with a decline of their patent productivity or departure from the firm this can be … stayed with the merged entity; 3.) M&As trigger inventor mobility, but do not lead to a decline in patent productivity if …

capacity for the post-merger patent productivity of the acquired inventors. Based on a sample of 544 inventors employed by …

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

We examine the relation between patent thickets and acquisitions. Patent thickets are dense webs of overlapping … litigation. We find that firms are less likely to be acquired when they are in a denser thicket comprised of many patent owners … it can have these costs imposed on it by the acquirer. Importantly, our results are not explained by patent count, patent …

spawns. Using a novel data set that combines employer-employee micro data from Sweden with firm level patent application data …