Patent Filing Strategies and Patent Management [electronic resource] : An Empirical Study /
Jell, Florian.author.
Understanding patent strategy is crucial for successful technology management and efficient innovation policy. However, the patent system has become more complex over the last decades, and it is nowadays difficult to understand companies’ strategies behind their patenting activities. Florian Jell empirically investigates the objectives that companies pursue with their patenting activities and presents empirical insights into how patent management is organized within industrial companies. The book concludes with a case study of how a company reacted to its competitor’s patenting – which led to a patent arms race.
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FOREWORD; PREFACE; TABLE OF CONTENTS; DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; ABSTRACT; ZUSAMMENFASSUNG; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; 2.1. The traditional view on patents; 2.2. Newer views on patents; 2.3. Recent developments in the patent system; 2.4. Different perspectives on patenting activity; 2.4.1 Patent policy and legislation; 2.4.2 Technology and effectiveness of patents; 2.4.3 Industry structure and competition; 2.4.4 Resources and patent management; 3 STRATEGIES AND MOTIVES FOR FILING PATENTS1; 3.1. Introduction
3.1.1 The role of pendency3.1.2 The role of publication; 3.1.3 Further proceeding; 3.1.4 Main results; 3.1.4.1 Descriptive analysis; 3.1.4.2 Multivariate analysis; 3.2. Review of the literature on patent pendency and publication; 3.2.1 Determinants of patent pendency; 3.2.1.1 Studies with a focus on the patent system; 3.2.1.2 Studies with a focus on value appropriation by firms; 3.2.2 Strategically delaying the patent process; 3.2.3 Patent application disclosure and defensive publishing; 3.2.4 Pendency and publication in studies using patent process data; 3.3. Hypotheses
3.3.1 Value components of German patent applications3.3.2 Generic filing strategies; 3.3.2.1 Early request for examination; 3.3.2.2 Long pending patent applications; 3.3.2.3 Early-lapsed patent applications; 3.3.2.4 Summary of hypotheses; 3.4. Dataset; 3.4.1 Patent data; 3.4.2 Interviews with inventors; 3.4.3 Survey of inventors; 3.4.3.1 Sampling and survey design; 3.4.3.2 Questionnaire; 3.5. Quantifying patent filing strategies; 3.5.1 Early request for examination; 3.5.2 Long-pending patent applications; 3.5.3 Early-lapsed patent applications
3.6. Relating patent filing strategies to filing motives3.6.1 Dependent variables; 3.6.1.1 Variables for tests of hypotheses 1, 2.1, and 2.2; 3.6.1.2 Variables for tests of hypotheses 3.1 and 3.2; 3.6.1.3 Summary of dependent variables; 3.6.2 Independent variables; 3.6.2.1 Block others; 3.6.2.2 Secure freedom to operate; 3.6.2.3 Create insecurity; 3.6.2.4 Gain time for evaluation; 3.6.2.5 Gain time to find licensees; 3.6.2.6 Enhance reputation; 3.6.2.7 Forearm against infringement suits; 3.6.2.8 Increase bargaining power; 3.6.2.9 Secure priority; 3.6.2.10 Use in product planned
3.6.2.11 Use in process planned3.6.2.12 Licensing planned; 3.6.2.13 FTO-blocking ratio; 3.6.2.14 Control variables; 3.6.3 Descriptive analysis of generic filing strategies and filing motives; 3.6.4 Usage of sampling weights in regression models; 3.6.4.1 Logistic regression; 3.6.4.2 OLS regression; 3.6.4.3 Multinomial logistic regression; 3.7. Results; 3.7.1 Factors of patent application filing motives; 3.7.2 Early requests for examination and pending patent applications; 3.7.2.1 Motives to expedite or delay the patent process (logit and OLS)
3.7.2.2 Determinants of filing strategy choice (multinomial logit)
Dissertation, Universität München, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references.
Understanding patent strategy is crucial for successful technology management and efficient innovation policy. However, the patent system has become more complex over the last decades, and it is nowadays difficult to understand companies’ strategies behind their patenting activities. Florian Jell empirically investigates the objectives that companies pursue with their patenting activities and presents empirical insights into how patent management is organized within industrial companies. The book concludes with a case study of how a company reacted to its competitor’s patenting – which led to a patent arms race.
Management.
Industrial management.
Innovation/Technology Management.