The duration of patent examination at the european patent office

Management Science

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1969-1984

  Harhoff, Dietmar ^a,b   Wagner, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European Patent Office; Patent citations; Patent examination; Patents; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FAILURE TIME; INNOVATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGERIAL DECISION MAKING; PATENT CITATION; RANDOM SAMPLE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BIOINFORMATICS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; TECHNICAL WRITING;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 72149121572     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1090.1069     Document Type: Article

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