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Private Value of European Patents

The author examines the joint patent designation-renewal behavior of the EPO patent applicants during 1978 to 1996, using both nonparametric technique and a parametric model. Findings indicate that the value of patent rights increases with the economics size of the country and has a modestly increasing returns to scale.