Patent Functions and Impact on Economic Growth of Selected Industries in EU

Currently, legislative patent protection is one of "the hottest topics" due to a billion-dollar lawsuit between Samsung and Apple. There is an academic discourse related to the importance of the patent protection regulations. Contemporary legal system impacts all fields of economics. A purpose of this study is to test hypothesis (that): "there should be an inhomogeneous patent-protection setting for particular industries". The IT industry, recognized for its low efficiency of regulation, is to be compared with the chemical industry, which, on contrary, is suggested to be stimulated by rigid regulation. This thesis brought a critical academic discussion leading to a quantitative regression analysis, which then supported the working hypothesis