van Zeebroeck, N.; Stevnsborg, N.; van Pottelsberghe de … - In: World Patent Information 30 (2008) 1, pp. 43-52
Patent filings worldwide have been subject to a combined growth in terms of the number of applications filed and their … size. This is putting patent systems under tremendous pressure, as witnessed by the evolution of backlogs at several patent … offices. The present article presents an analysis of the evolution in patent voluminosity observed at the European Patent …