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Languages, fees and the international scope of patenting

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin; Van Pottelsberghe de la … - 2015 - Version May 03, 2015

This paper analyzes firms' choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the European patent system. We develop an econometric model at the patent level to quantify the impact of office fees and translation costs on firms' decision to validate a patent in a particular...

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Languages, fees and the international scope of patenting

Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin; Van Pottelsberghe de la … - 2009

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The Economic Value of Patent Portfolios

Gambardella, Alfonso - 2017

Patent holders may choose to protect innovations with single patents or to develop portfolios of multiple, related patents. We propose a decision-making model in which patent holders allocate resources to either expanding the number of related patents or investing in higher value of patents in...

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Profiting from Voluntary Information Spillovers : How Users Benefit by Freely Revealing Their Innovations

Harhoff, Dietmar; Henkel, Joachim; von Hippel, Eric A. - 2012

Empirical studies of innovation have found that end users frequently develop important product and process innovations … their innovations to competing users and to manufacturers. Rival users are thus in a position to reproduce the innovation in …-house and benefit from using it, and manufacturers are in a position to refine the innovation and sell it to all users …

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