Does the Patent Cooperation Treaty work? A global analysis of patent applications by non-residents
We study drivers of international patent applications by non-residents and assess the importance of the PCT membership in their motivations. We construct bilateral measures of foreign patent applications for all countries active as both a source of patents and a destination of applications filed between 1970 and 2009. The data used originates from the EPO Patstat database. Applying a gravity model to explain the determinants of seeking patent protection in foreign markets, we find that there is a negative relationship between PCT membership and a country's attractiveness for foreign applicants. It is mainly the size of the market and a country's inventive capacity that attract foreign applicants to seek for patent protection in foreign countries.
NEPELSKI Daniel;
DE PRATO Giuditta;
2013-05-23
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC79541
978-92-79-29827-1,
1831-9424,
EUR 25963,
OP LF-NA-25963-EN-N,
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=6222,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC79541,
10.2791/14686,
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