This paper seeks to understand how motives to patent affect the use of the patent portfolio with a particular focus on … conducted by the European Patent Office (EPO). The main results can be summarized as follows. First, small and medium … sample patent for monetary reasons. Second, SMEs tend to use their patents more actively than large firms. Third, smaller …

commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological … innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …

commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological … innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …

We analyze the potential spillover effects from patent-infringement litigation initiated by non-practicing entities … litigation filing date, losses that are much greater than those around patent litigations initiated by practicing entities. We …

We study the impact of climate-related patent approvals on financial markets. We exploit the quasi-random assignment of … patent examiners as an exogenous shock in patent approvals to seek for causal interpretations. We find that innovative firms … with lucky draws in the patent examiner lottery (involving climate-related patent applications) subsequently display …

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

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

financial information and patent data for public limited companies in Europe as well as country level variables, we apply a … domestic M&As, we find that technological relatedness of the M&A partners reduces uncertainty and the expected risk of failure …