Download or read book Economic Analyses of the European Patent System written by Stefan Wagner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan M. Wagner analyses problems associated with institutional changes (duration of patent examination and opposition mechanisms), the expansion of the patentable subject matter and organizational challenges for industrial patentees. The study is based on the empirical analysis of large scale datasets on European patents and employs advanced multivariate methods such as semi-parametric and panel-data regression methods.