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Claiming more: the increased voluminosity of patent applications and its determinants

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Nicolas van Zeebroeck () (Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.)
Bruno Van Pottelsberghe () (Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels)
Dominique Guellec () (OECD -DSTI, Paris.)

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Abstract

The joint increase in the number and size of patents filed around the world puts the patent system under pressure. This paper analyses the sources of this surge in number of claims and pages of patent applications at the EPO. Four hypotheses are scrutinized: the diffusion of national drafting practices, the increasing complexity of inventions, the emergence of new sectors, and new patenting strategies. The results show that the increasing voluminosity is explained by all these hypotheses and suggest that the diffusion of the US model through the PCT is one of the major factors driving the size of EPO patent applications.

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Paper provided by Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Centre Emile Bernheim (CEB) in its series Working Papers CEB with number 06-018.RS.

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Keywords: Patent voluminosity; Patent applications; IP strategy; Claim drafting; Patent systems.;

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O50 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - General

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