The Duration of Patent Examination at the European Patent Office

By Dietmar Harhoff, Stefan Wagner. Management Sciences, 2009

331 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Dirk Czarnitzki
2. K. Hussinger
3. David H. Hsu
4. Scott Stern
5. Joshua S. Gans
6. Cédric Schneider
7. Stefan Wagner
8. Helene Dernis

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. David H. Hsu
2. Scott Stern
3. Joshua S. Gans
4. Cédric Schneider
5. K. Hussinger
6. Dirk Czarnitzki
7. Stefan Wagner
8. Helene Dernis

Citations in the corpus

• The Cost Factor in Patent Systems (2009, unknown): “Harhoff and Wagner (2006) also show that the most important patents, or those that are more frequently cited by subsequent patent filings, are examined faster.”
• The hidden costs of outsourcing: evidence from patent data (2010, background): “As is known from the literature (Harhoff and Wagner, 2009), however, these capacity constraints may play out in distinctly different ways across industries.”
• How patenting informs VC investors - The case of biotechnology (2014, unknown): “Harhoff and Wagner (2009) show that such applications are particularly likely to be refused or withdrawn at the EPO.”
• To Be Financed or Not : The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing (2009, unknown): “See Harhoff and Wagner (2006) for details on patent examination lags.”
• The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays (2008, background): “tion, Harhoff and Wagner (2005) find the reverse correlation using”
• Corporate Governance and Green Innovation (2016, unknown): “citations across technological fields (Harhoff and Wagner 2009).”
• The nexus between science and industry: evidence from faculty inventions (2012, background): “The number of IPC assignments is a proxy for the complexity of the invention (Harhoff and Wagner 2009).”
• Measuring Patent Quality (2013, background): “, 2005); the duration and outcome of the patent examination procedure at the European Patent Office (Harhoff and Wagner, 2009); and the value of post-merger patents vis-à-vis pre-merger ones (Stahl, 2010).”