Intellectual property rights

The emerging patent marketplace

04-Jan-2010

Facilitating the mobilisation, sharing, or exchange of patents is important to promote innovation. Analysis of the functions, business models, and activities of IP specialist firms which organise the circulation of patented inventions is the central topic of the research in this working paper.

Pre-emptive Patenting: Securing Market Exclusion and Freedom of Operation

15-Dec-2009

This new working paper investigates the characteristics, functioning and incidence of pre-emptive patenting, defined as patent filings whose main effect is to hamper the grant of other patents.

Who Licenses Out Patents and Why? Lessons from a Business Survey

01-Apr-2009

This working paper analyses results of a business survey on the licensing-out of patents. The goal was to investigate the intensity of licensing to affiliated and non-affiliated companies, its evolution, the characteristics, motivations and obstacles met by companies licensing or willing to license.

OECD Patent Statistics Manual 2009

16-Feb-2009

Patent data are an outstanding resource for the study of technical change. Just published, this manual provides guiding principles for the use of patent data in S&T measurement, and recommendations for the compilation and interpretation of patent indicators in this context. 

OECD Compendium of Patent Statistics 2008

12-Sep-2008

This document provides a snapshot of the latest available internationally comparable data on patents. The indicators presented are specifically designed to reflect recent trends in inventive activities across a wide range of OECD member and non-member countries.

Presentation of the OECD "REGPAT" database

06-Jun-2008

This database presents patent data linked to regions according to the addresses of the applicants and inventors. The data have been regionalised at a very detailed level so that over 2000 regions are covered across OECD countries. REGPAT allows patent data to be used in connection with other regional data, thus providing researchers with the means to develop a rich set of new indicators and undertake a broad range of analyses to address the regional dimension of innovation.

"Nowcasting" patent indicators

12-Oct-2007

This new STI working paper aims at designing simple but robust methods that would enable to forecast the present (or recent past) in order to improve the timeliness of patent indicators.

Compendium of Patent Statistics, 2007 edition

28-Sep-2007

This report presents various patent indicators to reflect recent trends in innovative activity across a wide range of OECD and non-OECD countries, with seven main sections: triadic patent families; patenting at national, regional and international level; patenting in selected technology areas; patents by institutional sectors; international cooperation in inventive activities; science linkages in technology.

Conference on "patents: realising and securing value": Summary report

18-Jan-2007

Held in London in November 2006, this conference engaged patent and licensing professionals, patent officials and policy makers from OECD countries in discussions about the licensing and valuation of patents. It showed the emergence of technology markets and the increasing use of patents for raising capital.

Conference on research use of patented inventions: Summary report

05-Jan-2007

Held in Madrid in May 2006, this conference engaged policy makers and stakeholders from OECD countries in discussions about the use of patented inventions and the knowledge embedded in them for research in the public and private sector.