Eugenio Archontopoulos

When small is beautiful: measuring the evolution and consequences of the voluminosity of patent applications at the EPO

Eugenio Archontopoulos, Dominique Guellec, Niels Stevnsborg, Bruno Van Pottelsberghe, Nicolas Van Zeebroeck

The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts patent systems under pressure.This paper addresses issues in measuring the voluminosity of patent applications and...

When Small is Beautiful: Measuring the Evolution and Consequences of the Voluminosity of Patent Applications at the EPO

Archontopoulos, Eugenio, Guellec, Dominique, Stevnsborg, Niels, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Van Zeebroeck, Nicolas

The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts patent systems under pressure. This paper addresses issues in measuring the voluminosity of patent applications and...

When small is beautiful: Measuring the evolution and consequences of the voluminosity of patent applications at the EPO

Archontopoulos, Eugenio, Guellec, Dominique, Stevnsborg, Niels, Van Pottelsberghe De La Potterie, Bruno, Van Zeebroeck, Nicolas