Foreign applications at the Japan Patent Office – An empirical analysis of selected growth factors
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- 作者：Federico Caviggiolia ; b ; federico.caviggioli@polito.it"" rel=""nofollow [Author vitae]
- 关键词：International patents ; JPO ; Patent harmonisation
- 刊名：World Patent Information
- 出版年：2011
- 出版时间：June 2011
- 年：2011
- 卷：33
- 期：2
- 页码：157-167
- 全文大小：603 K
文摘
This article aims to evaluate some of the possible factors which could have had a significant role in the increase in the yearly number of foreign patent applications at the Japan Patent Office. The analysed period ranges from 1991 to 2005. In the years considered, foreign applications increased constantly while the number of domestic filings remained almost the same or even decreased. The increase is more striking when compared to analogous figures of the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office, where the corresponding ratio did not change too much in the same period. Building on previous literature, this paper analyses the impact of some macroeconomic and structural characteristics of the extending countries, on one side, and, on the other side, some features specific to the receiving country and its Patent Office (here Japan and the JPO). This work tries to capture the relevance of such drivers in the increased amount of foreign patent applications at the JPO.