This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten … based on VaxPaL, a COVID-19 vaccines patent database developed by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Through the detailed … examination of patent applicants, filing dates, and offices of first and subsequent filing, the paper identifies patterns and …

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent … system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on … firms’ decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been granted by the EPO. These costs have been …

This paper develops a methodology to compare the quality of examination services in different patent offices. Quality … is defined as the extent to which patent offices comply with their patentability conditions in a transparent way. The … of patent offices in Europe (EPO), Japan (JPO) and the US (USPTO) shows that their operational designs differ …

This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patentprotection within the European patent system …. We develop an econometric modelat the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs onfirms …’ decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been grantedby the EPO. These costs have been disregarded in …

This paper analyzes firms' choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent … system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on … firms' decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been granted by the EPO. These costs have been …

quality of the patent granting process. To do so we examine a policy change that aimed at including the information revealed …, suggesting that the process of patent granting has become more careful and selective after the policy implementation. …

This paper analyzes firms' choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent … system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on … firms' decision to validate a patent in a particular country once it has been granted by the EPO. These costs have been …

This paper analyses the role of patent-filing fees requested by the member states of the European Patent Convention … that the transfer rate of domestic priority filings to the European Patent Office (EPO) increases with the duration of … the EPO or at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to assess the innovative performance of countries …

We examine the Nash equilibria of a game where two national governments set patent breadth strategically. Broader … North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth lowers welfare relative to the Nash equilibrium. When both countries can … innovate, harmonization toward narrower patent breadth may raise world welfare …