Add to ORKGThe creation of a European Community Patent (COMPAT) came a step closer this month when Sweden brokered a preliminary agreement on the issue. In this working paper, Senior Resident Fellow Bruno van Pottelsberghe uses simulations to take a look at the advantages, disadvantages, winners and losers from the creation of the COMPAT. He finds that it would drastically reduce the relative patenting costs for applicants while generating more income for the European Patent Office and increased savings for the business sector. He also explains that the lost of economic rents for patent attorneys, translators and lawyers specialised in patent litigation and the drop of controlling power for national patent offices may explain why there has been such r...
Abstract: This paper argues that the consequences of the ‘fragmentation ’ of the European patent sys...
This thesis will show how patents policies can help the commercialization of inventions in Europe. O...
One feature of the European patent system that is heavily criticized nowadays is related to its comp...
The creation of a European Community Patent (COMPAT) came a step closer this month when Sweden broke...
For more than 40 years, governments and professional associations have acted, voted or lobbied again...
• The European Union patent system is highly fragmented, which reduces its effectiveness and attract...
The patent system in Europe is still incomplete. Appropriating returns from patented technology is i...
The European Union will be introducing a Europe-wide patent, the so-called Community Patent. Its aim...
This paper provides new evidence about the budgetary consequences – for patent offices – of the coex...
This paper puts forward a sustainable fee structure for the EU Patent (COMPAT). The proposal include...
In Europe there are two patent systems national patents under national law and a European patent sys...
This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the Eu...
This paper analyses the consequences for the European patent system of the recently ratified London ...
In this Policy Brief, Bruegel Senior Fellow Bruno van Pottelsberghe makes the argument in favour of ...
This paper argues that the consequences of the ‘fragmentation’ of the European patent system are mor...
Abstract: This paper argues that the consequences of the ‘fragmentation ’ of the European patent sys...
This thesis will show how patents policies can help the commercialization of inventions in Europe. O...
One feature of the European patent system that is heavily criticized nowadays is related to its comp...
The creation of a European Community Patent (COMPAT) came a step closer this month when Sweden broke...
For more than 40 years, governments and professional associations have acted, voted or lobbied again...
• The European Union patent system is highly fragmented, which reduces its effectiveness and attract...
The patent system in Europe is still incomplete. Appropriating returns from patented technology is i...
The European Union will be introducing a Europe-wide patent, the so-called Community Patent. Its aim...
This paper provides new evidence about the budgetary consequences – for patent offices – of the coex...
This paper puts forward a sustainable fee structure for the EU Patent (COMPAT). The proposal include...
In Europe there are two patent systems national patents under national law and a European patent sys...
This paper analyzes firms’ choices regarding the geographic scope of patent protection within the Eu...
This paper analyses the consequences for the European patent system of the recently ratified London ...
In this Policy Brief, Bruegel Senior Fellow Bruno van Pottelsberghe makes the argument in favour of ...
This paper argues that the consequences of the ‘fragmentation’ of the European patent system are mor...
Abstract: This paper argues that the consequences of the ‘fragmentation ’ of the European patent sys...
This thesis will show how patents policies can help the commercialization of inventions in Europe. O...
One feature of the European patent system that is heavily criticized nowadays is related to its comp...