Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operation

We investigate statistically the characteristics, functioning and incidence of pre-emptive patenting, defined as patent filings whose main effect is to hamper the grant of other patents. Patent applications can be used defensively to prevent the grant of exclusive rights over markets and technologie...

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Autores: Guellec, Dominique, Martínez, Catalina, Zuniga, Pluvia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Pre-emptive patenting
Blocking patents
Offensive and defensive patenting
Citations
Patents
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spelling Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operationGuellec, DominiqueMartínez, CatalinaZuniga, PluviaPre-emptive patentingBlocking patentsOffensive and defensive patentingCitationsPatentsWe investigate statistically the characteristics, functioning and incidence of pre-emptive patenting, defined as patent filings whose main effect is to hamper the grant of other patents. Patent applications can be used defensively to prevent the grant of exclusive rights over markets and technologies, in order to ensure freedom of operation or keep competitors out of a given technological field. Combining data from examination outcomes and prior art at the European Patent Office, we develop a methodology to identify pre-emptive patent applications. We find evidence of pre-emption associated with patent applications cited as compromising patentability while not being deemed relevant to the state of the art. We also find that, among them, those which are withdrawn have the strongest pre-emptive power. The coincidence of low inventiveness and high pre-emptive impact supports the idea that some of these patents may be strategically designed by their applicants to block patenting by others.Peer ReviewedTaylor & FrancisMartínez, Catalina [0000-0003-1010-8384]Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]2018201820122018info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Postprintinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/171895reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2010.536378Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1718952026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operation
title Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operation
spellingShingle Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operation
Guellec, Dominique
Pre-emptive patenting
Blocking patents
Offensive and defensive patenting
Citations
Patents
title_short Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operation
title_full Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operation
title_fullStr Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operation
title_full_unstemmed Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operation
title_sort Pre-emptive patenting: securing market exclusion and freedom of operation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Guellec, Dominique
Martínez, Catalina
Zuniga, Pluvia
author Guellec, Dominique
author_facet Guellec, Dominique
Martínez, Catalina
Zuniga, Pluvia
author_role author
author2 Martínez, Catalina
Zuniga, Pluvia
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Martínez, Catalina [0000-0003-1010-8384]
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Pre-emptive patenting
Blocking patents
Offensive and defensive patenting
Citations
Patents
topic Pre-emptive patenting
Blocking patents
Offensive and defensive patenting
Citations
Patents
description We investigate statistically the characteristics, functioning and incidence of pre-emptive patenting, defined as patent filings whose main effect is to hamper the grant of other patents. Patent applications can be used defensively to prevent the grant of exclusive rights over markets and technologies, in order to ensure freedom of operation or keep competitors out of a given technological field. Combining data from examination outcomes and prior art at the European Patent Office, we develop a methodology to identify pre-emptive patent applications. We find evidence of pre-emption associated with patent applications cited as compromising patentability while not being deemed relevant to the state of the art. We also find that, among them, those which are withdrawn have the strongest pre-emptive power. The coincidence of low inventiveness and high pre-emptive impact supports the idea that some of these patents may be strategically designed by their applicants to block patenting by others.
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