Wolfram P, Schuster G, Brem A (2014)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution
Publication year: 2014
Edited Volumes: Proceedings of the R&D Management Conference 2014: Connecting High Value Solutions with Future Markets
Pages Range: 745-749
Conference Proceedings Title: Management of Applied R&D: Connecting high value solutions with future markets
Event location: Stuttgart, Germany
While global intellectual property trends show a stable rate of worldwide patent applications during the last five years, patent applications in emerging economies strongly increased within the same period. Unless the increasing number of applications in emerging economies, the indigenous legal systems in those countries are mostly not able to effectively protect intellectual property rights of multinational companies. Still, we observe the phenomenon of a strongly increasing rate of technology patenting in countries with weak appropriability regimes. This article studies patenting strategy archetypes of the world’s largest patent applicants using the case of China as an empirical context. Using Questel’s professional patent search application Orbit, we build a unique data set of the world’s top patent applicants combining data from the World Intellectual Property Organization and the State Intellectual Property Office of China comprising data of about 620.000 patents. Referring to the study of Keupp et al. (2012), we extend previous qualitative studies on patenting strategy archetypes by adding quantitative evidence from a data set of the world’s largest intellectual property owners. Model based clustering reveals the existence of five patent strategy archetypes of companies patenting in economies with weak appropriability regimes.
APA:
Wolfram, P., Schuster, G., & Brem, A. (2014). Intellectual Property Strategies of Multinational Companies Patenting in China. In Fraunhofer IAO, IAT Universität Stuttgart (Eds.), Management of Applied R&D: Connecting high value solutions with future markets (pp. 745-749). Stuttgart, Germany.
MLA:
Wolfram, Pierre, Gerd Schuster, and Alexander Brem. "Intellectual Property Strategies of Multinational Companies Patenting in China." Proceedings of the The R&D Management Conference 2014, Stuttgart, Germany Ed. Fraunhofer IAO, IAT Universität Stuttgart, 2014. 745-749.
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