Experience effects of patent examiners: an empirical study of the career length and citation patterns on triadic patents
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Keywords
Examiner citation; Examination spillover; Rejection citation; Patent family; Trilateral offices; Triadic patent;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- K29 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Other
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
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