Universities and companies are rushing to the patent office in record numbers to patent nanotechnology inventions. This … rush to the patent office is so significant that many law firms have established nanotechnology practice groups, and the U ….S. Patent and Trademark Office has now created a new technology class designed to track nanotechnology products. Three big …

innovations (i.e., invention patents) than on less complicated innovations (i.e., utility model and external design patents …

. The data matches firm level accounting data with information on the patents that those firms and their subsidiaries have … applied for at the European Patents Office. We describe the data in detail. -- International investment and multinational …