Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Patent Systems (2008)
1. The context: The European patent system has been affected by substantial changes over the past three decades, which have raised vigorous debates at different levels. The main objective of the...
Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Patent Systems (2008)
1. The context: The European patent system has been affected by substantial changes over the past three decades, which have raised vigorous debates at different levels. The main objective of the...
Essays on the Empirical Analysis of Patent Systems (2008)
1. The context: The European patent system has been affected by substantial changes over the past three decades, which have raised vigorous debates at different levels. The main objective of the...
Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Van Zeebroeck, Nicolas
The renewal of patents and their geographical scope for protection constitute two essential dimensions in a patent’s life, and probably the most frequently used patent value indicators. The...
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...
Claiming More: The Increased Voluminosity of Patent Applications and its Determinants
Guellec, Dominique, Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Van Zeebroeck, Nicolas
The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts the patent system under pressure. This paper analyses the sources of this surge in number of claims and pages of...
Filing Strategies and Patent Value
Van Pottelsberghe, Bruno, Van Zeebroeck, Nicolas
This paper aims at contributing to the literature on the determinants of patent value. First, it puts forward a new potential class of value determinants in the form of filing strategies...