van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; van Zeebroeck, … - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2006
The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts the patent system under pressure. This paper analyses the sources of this surge in number of claims and pages of patent applications at the EPO. Four hypotheses are scrutinized: the diffusion of national drafting...