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Title:

Defensive publishing - An Empirical Study

Document type:
Working Paper
Author(s):
Henkel, J., Pangerl, S.
Non-TUM Co-author(s):
Nein
Cooperation:
national
Abstract:
Defensive Publishing denotes publication of an invention with the purpose of creating prior art, and thus preventing patents being granted on this invention. Although widely employed, it has hardly been investigated empirically. Our study is based on 56 in-depth interviews, among others with most industrial firms in the German DAX 30 stock index. We find that 70 percent of the companies in our sample use defensive publications, for up to one third of their inventions. Interestingly, we find that...     »
Intellectual Contribution:
Discipline-based Research
Year:
2008
Language:
en
Format:
Text
Key publication:
Nein
International:
Ja
Commissioned:
not commissioned
Interdisciplinarity:
Ja
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