Does the Patent Cooperation Treaty work? A global analysis of patent applications by non-residents

Daniel Nepelski and Giuditta De Prato

No JRC79541, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: We study drivers of international patent applications by non-residents and assess the importance of the PCT membership in their motivations. We construct bilateral measures of foreign patent applications for all countries active as both a source of patents and a destination of applications filed between 1970 and 2009. The data used originates from the EPO Patstat database. Applying a gravity model to explain the determinants of seeking patent protection in foreign markets, we find that there is a negative relationship between PCT membership and a country's attractiveness for foreign applicants. It is mainly the size of the market and a country's inventive capacity that attract foreign applicants to seek for patent protection in foreign countries.

Keywords: patent harmonization; PCT; IPR; patenting strategies; international patenting; technology transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 O30 O31 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2012-06, Revised 2012-11
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