Patent Filing Strategies and Patent Management: An Empirical Study (Innovation und Entrepreneurship)

Understanding patent strategy is crucial for successful technology management and efficient innovation policy. However, the patent system has become more complex over the last decades, and it is nowadays difficult to understand companies’ strategies behind their patenting activities. Florian Jell empirically investigates the objectives that companies pursue with their patenting activities and presents empirical insights into how patent management is organized within industrial companies. The book concludes with a case study of how a company reacted to its competitor’s patenting – which led to a patent arms race. "Florian Jell empirically investigates the objectives that companies pursue with their patenting activities and presents empirical insights into how patent management is organized within industrial companies. The book concludes with a case study of how a company reacted to its competitor's patenting -- which led to a patent arms race."--Page 4 of cover Front Matter....Pages I-XXII Introduction....Pages 1-3 Theoretical foundations....Pages 4-14 Strategies and motives for filing patents....Pages 15-111 Patent management and motives for filing patents....Pages 112-151 Patent arms races....Pages 152-182 Summary and conclusion....Pages 183-186 Back Matter....Pages 187-214