that patents themselves are complex documents that are difficult even for patent experts to interpret. In addition, issued … patents are the result of an often long and complicated negotiation between applicant and patent office (in the United States … United States patents embedded within a comprehensive patent citation network to measure the importance of those patents …

litigious NPEs enforced many patents from product companies and public companies, the patents enforced by random companies were … more likely to come from larger and better funded companies. Additionally, the data implies that patents obtained by … considered, software patents are no longer a statistically significant predictor of invalidation.The layering of the system shows …

about the validity of this measure. This paper links patents with objective measures of improvements in the quality of … influence citations. Patent attorneys cite early patents, which help establish the patentability of an invention; this practice … may inflate citation counts for early patents, particularly for inventions that have only recently become patentable …

broken system of filing patents. This article presents a deeper view of the latter and suggests tried-and-tested methods to …

, exclusivity, and industries. The finding, coupled with other major ones from the relevant empirical studies in NPEs and patents …

is very important. For our research we made use of the EPO (European Patent Office) database on patents. We used the …