Patent Offices. The risk of facing elevated legal costs to defend patent rights can affect ex-ante incentives to invest in R …&D. This paper analyses whether the availability of insurance policies that cover legal expenditures for patent litigation … valid patent and an entrant imitator can either directly enter the market or try to apply for a patent, hoping that an error …

find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing …. It also turns out that the perceived effectiveness of a patent depends on a firm's size, theinnovation type and … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …