Patent Office Granting Decisions
The main objective of this research is to assess and explore why the differences in patent grant rates, if any, exist. In particular, for the same set of patent applications faced by each patent office, this study addresses the following key questions:
- Are there any systematic cross-country differences in terms of the determinants of the probability for a patent grant? Do they vary by technology or types of applicants?
- Is there any home-country bias? That is, is the country of origin of a patent applicant an important determinant of the probability for a patent grant in the home patent system?
- Does any patent office exhibit preference for any specific technology field? 2.4. How does the granting decision of foreign applications relate to the overall economic structure of the receiving patent system?
- Does the presentation of the patent application, such as the number of sentences in the description or the number of previous patents cited, matter?
Completed papers under this project include:
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Palangkaraya A, Jensen P & Webster E. 2008. Applicant behaviour in patent examination request lags. Economics Letters. 101: 243-245.
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Jensen P, Palangkaraya A & Webster E. 2008. Application outcomes and pendency times across four patent offices. Australian Intellectual Property Journal. 19: 178-190.
- Leahy, A., MacLaren, D., Morgan, D., Weatherall, K., Webster, E., and Yong, J. (2008) In the Shadow of the ChinaAustralia FTA Negotiations: What Australian Business Thinks About IP, Economic Papers, 27(1) 1-18.
- Webster, E., Palangkaraya, A. and Jensen, P., (2007) Characteristics of International Patent Application Outcomes Economics Letters, 95( 3), 362-368.
- Jensen, P. H. Palangkaraya, A. and Webster, E. (2006) Disharmony in International Patent Office Decisions Federal Circuit Bar Journal.
- Alfons Palangkaraya, Paul H. Jensen and Elizabeth Webster, Determinants of International Patent Examination Outcomes, PDF Format
For further information on these papers or the data sets used please contact Dr Alfons Palangkaraya on [email protected] .
Dr Alfons Palangkaraya