Essays on patent examination and standard essential patents

This dissertation contains three studies on the patenting process and standard essential patents. The first study analyzes the matching of patent applications to examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The analysis uses statistical tests originally developed to study industry agglomeratio...

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Main Author: Righi, Cesare
Language:en_US
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/23353