van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno; de … - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2008
This paper investigates whether patent fee policies are a potential factor underlying the boom in patent applications … observed in major patent offices. We provide the first panel-based evidence suggesting that fees affect the demand for patents … in three major patent offices (EPO, USPTO and JPO), with a price elasticity of about -0.4 (similar to that of the …