Examiner trust in applicants to the European Patent Office: country specificities
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-018-2894-4
Abstract: Indicators based on the probability of applicant citations in patents have been used to emphasize the importance of distinguishing applicant and examiner citations. However, the interpretation of these indicators and of the presence of applicant… read more here.
Keywords: patent office; european patent; trust applicants; examiner trust ... See more keywords
Do business cycles affect patenting? Evidence from European Patent Office filings
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.11.003
Abstract: This paper studies the sensitivity of patent filings to the business cycle using patent filings at the European Patent Office (EPO). Using a dynamic model of patenting and the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter method to separate… read more here.
Keywords: patent office; affect patenting; european patent; business ... See more keywords
Non-patent literature search at the European Patent Office
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DOI: 10.1016/j.wpi.2017.07.001
Abstract: Abstract On average, one out of five search reports issued by the European Patent Office (EPO) contains a non-patent literature (NPL) document citation, mainly from scholarly papers. More than half of all search reports in… read more here.
Keywords: search; patent office; european patent; non patent ... See more keywords