. Indicators refer to the information about Chinese patent applications at EPO in the period 1996–2010 (OECD REGPAT and Citations … databases, January 2014). In order to fit the research questions, patent data have been restricted, re-organized and originally …

Patent infringement awards are commonly thought to be unpredictable, which raises concerns that patents can lead to … unjust enrichment and impede the progress of innovation. We investigate the unpredictability of patent damages by conducting … relationships with accepted indicators of patent value. Our findings demonstrate that infringement awards are not systematically …

work by incorporating the phases required to bring the project from patent approval to market. We also incorporate a …

This paper investigates whether patent subsidy programs aimed at promoting regional innovations have aroused a large … number of low-quality applications in China and created biased patent statistics as an indicator for innovations. We found … that patent filing fee subsidies encouraged filing of low-quality patent, resulting in a decreased grant rate. Though …

optimal search. In conventional models of patent design, only one brand - the brand with the highest quality - is available on …

network. To study the structure and evolution of the global technological collaboration network, we use patent-based data of …

. Looking at patent applications as a metric allows us to determine whether the necessary technological progress is indeed … novel Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC), which can be used to identify relevant patent applications of the competing … technologies. Using the worldwide patent statistical database (PATSTAT), we find that promising technologies have been showing …

paper describes the Emerging Clusters Model, which uses advanced patent citation techniques to locate emerging technologies … in close to real time, rather than retrospectively. The model covers multiple patent systems, and is designed to be …