Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies

By James Bessen. 2003

137 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Dominique Guellec
2. Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
3. Bronwyn H Hall
4. Jakob B. Madsen
5. Mario Coccia
6. M. Vivarelli
7. M. Reitzig
8. Gwanghoon Lee

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie
2. Dominique Guellec
3. M. Reitzig

Citations in the corpus

• Claiming more: the increased voluminosity of patent applications and its determinants (2009, background): “In this context, what matters can then become the size and strength of the portfolio rather than the quality (scope, ability to stand in courts) of any single patent (see for instance Shapiro 2000; Hall and Ziedonis 2001; and Bessen 2003).”
• Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - the Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity (2013, unknown): “Formal models of patenting in patent thickets do not attempt to span both complex and discrete technologies as we do here: Bessen (2004), Clark and Konrad (2008) and Siebert and von Graevenitz (2010).”