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How to Educate Entrepreneurs?
(2011-11-27)
Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students ...
Which Reputations Does a Brand Owner Need? Evidence from Trade Mark Opposition
(2007-07-01)
At least two: the reputation of their brand and a reputation for being tough on imitators of this brand. Sustaining a brand requires both investment in its reputation amongst consumers and the defence of the brand against ...
TECHNOLOGY ENTRY IN THE PRESENCE OF PATENT THICKETS
(2015-08-01)
We analyze the effect of patent thickets on entry into technology areas by firms in the UK. We present a model that describes incentives to enter technology areas characterized by varying technological opportunity, complexity ...
CONFLICT RESOLUTION, PUBLIC GOODS AND PATENT THICKETS
(2013-03-25)
Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced ...
Trade Mark Cluttering: An Exploratory Report
(Intellectual Property Office UK, 2012-04-13)
This report explores the problem of “cluttering” of trade mark registers. The report consists of two parts: the first presents a conceptual discussion of “clutte ring” of trade mark registers. The second part provides an ...
A Study of Patent Thickets
(Intellectual Property Office UK, 2013-07-30)
This report analyses whether entry of UK enterprises into patenting in a technology area is affected by patent thickets in the technology area. The aim is to contribute to our understanding of the role of patent thickets ...
The strategic use of patents and its implications for enterprise and competition policies
(European Commission, 2007-07-08)
This report was commissioned as a study into the strategic use of patents. In the course of its case investigations and legislative reviews the European Commission became aware of changes in the use of intellectual property, ...
Cluttering and Non-Use of Trade Marks in Europe
(The Intellectual Property Office, 2015-01-15)
The 2011 “Study on the Overall Functioning of the European Trade Mark System” by the Max Planck Institute was commissioned by the European Commission and presented survey-based evidence that UK trade mark attorneys/agents ...
The European Patent System: A Descriptive Analysis
(Deutschen Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, 2019-03-01)
The European Patent System: A Descriptive Analysis
(Queen Mary, University of London, School of Business and Management, Centre for Globalisation Research, 2018-10-18)
The European Patent System consists of national patent offices (NPOs) and the supranational European Patent Office (EPO). EPO and the NPOs have granted patents in Europe side-by-side since 1980. The resulting patent system ...