The Chinese version of Bayh-Dole Act (BD for short) refers to the ownership reform policy for patents arising from … impact of the Chinese BD. Empirical evidence suggested that patent applications, patent approvals, patent durations, patent … policy encouraged more researchers to disclose and commercialize their inventions and to pursue global patent filing …

We examine the diversification of administrative and procedural costs on patent stock using a large dataset from the … European Patent Office with 15,000 firms for the period between 1995 and 2015. The results reveal that administrative and … equal effects. Higher administrative costs often encourage patent application and validation by solving the adverse …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …

governments should bear the cost of the expected increased industry obsolescence determined by a temporary patent waiver; this … includes public patent-buy-outs and regulated public-private R&D partnerships. …