Filing strategies and patent value

Nicolas van Zeebroeck and Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potter

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Abstract: This article contributes to the literature on the determinants of patent value in two ways. First, it introduces a new potential class of value determinants in the form of filing strategies (including filing routes, drafting styles and divisional filings). Second, it provides empirical evidence based on a unique dataset of about 250,000 EPO patents that these strategies are consistently and positively associated with patent value, indicated by six different measures based on citations, families, renewals and oppositions.

Date: 2011
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Published in: Economics of innovation and new technology (2011) v.20 n° 6,p.539-562

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