implementation of the Community Patent (COMPAT). The econometric results and simulations presented in this paper suggest that, thanks … relative patenting costs for applicants while generating more income for the European Patent Office and most national patent … offices. The loss of economic rents (€400 million would be lost by patent attorneys, translators and lawyers) and the drop of …

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 …

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

the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over …

output. Research units that source research ideas from small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) patent more, but not more …

Incentives and assistance provided by TTOs, university policies, patent legislation and scientific disciplines are …

patent experience of inventors and universities further help explain the variance in ownership patterns. Both experienced and …

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is twofold. First, we show how the patent … policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …