Applicant behaviour in patent examination request lags

Economics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-245

  Palangkaraya, Alfons ^a,b   Jensen, Paul H ^a,b   Webster, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Investment uncertainty; Patent examinations; Patent pendency

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549087870     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.08.014     Document Type: Article

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