' successful patent applications. The last chapter describes sector-level input-output relationships in eleven European economies …

This paper develops a methodology to compare the quality of examination services in different patent offices. Quality … is defined as the extent to which patent offices comply with their patentability conditions in a transparent way. The … of patent offices in Europe (EPO), Japan (JPO) and the US (USPTO) shows that their operational designs differ …

powerful strategic tool: the offers that he makes to the patent holder will affect the royalty rate that the Court may adopt as … availability of injunctions, the holder of a sufficiently weak patent will end up accepting below FRAND rates, in particular when … sufficiently strong patent will always end up in litigation by rejecting offers below FRAND. This arises in particular when the …

likelihood of patent renewal. Since the owners know more about the patents than potential external financiers, there is a problem …

The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light … already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). For most … this purpose, we use a unique data set which collects balance sheet items and patent information from EPO and USPTO. After …

mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner?s ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …