One feature of the European patent system that is heavily criticized nowadays is related to its complex fragmentation … and the induced cost burden for applicants. Once a patent is granted by the EPO, the assignee must validate (and often … validation behavior of applicants. We rely on a gravity model that aims at explaining patent flows between inventor and target …

European countries over four decades (1980-2019), using citation records and patent quality indicators from OECD/STI Micro …

We investigate the innovational determinants of “Patent Applications” in Europe. We use data from the European … positive association with “Patent Applications” are “Human Resources” and “Intellectual Assets”, while the variables that show … a more intense negative relation with Patent Applications are “Employment Share in Manufacturing” and “Total …

Substance of the Patent Law' of April 6, 2012 (see SSRN eLibrary), which comprises inter alia my constructive proposal to take … 'invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal for use the RWP basis on my circa 25 years … periodic watch of developments of the leading patent systems. In order to explain and understand better RWP itself, legal …

, patent law and the Internet’s values are compatible is undertheorized. Through the lens of recent books by Jonathan Zittrain … the patent right is directed to exclusivity, I suggest that if tailored appropriately, patent law can be supportive of the …

On July 5 2000 the European Commission proposed the creation of a Community patent to give inventors the option of … obtaining a single patent legally valid throughout the European Union. The Lisbon European Council cited the creation of a … Community patent as an essential part of Europe's efforts to harness the results of research to new scientific and technological …

The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

The paper studies the patent productivity of scientists over their life cycle. The incentives for patenting and for … at the end of the scientific career. In contrast, the analytical model given here suggests an increase of patent … productivity over the life time. In the empirical part the patents of nearly 1000 German patent active professors are analyzed. The …

I analyse how patent litigation outcome in Germany affects the performance of the disputing firms by interpreting … the functioning of the bifurcated German patent litigation system: The separation of litigation and invalidity decisions …, resulting in invalidity decisions taking much longer than decisions on infringement, provides patent holders with a window of …