Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Leten, Bart - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications ('blocking citations'). Empirical …