been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to …

We analyze the duration of the patent examination process at the European Patent Office (EPO). Our data contain … information related to the patent's economic and technical relevance, EPO capacity and workload as well as novel citation measures … the patent grant by the examiner or an actual patent grant. Highly cited applications are approved faster by the EPO than …

The article attempts to show the role of the patent system in the internationalization of diffusion of technical … knowledge. Its purpose is to analyse, use of international technical knowledge made available through patent systems, by Polish … so-called patent citations, included in the technical documentation submitted for the protection of inventions …