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.

Autorentext
Dr. Florian Jell has been researcher and lecturer at the Schöller Chair in Technology and Innovation Management (held by Prof. Dr. Joachim Henkel, Technische Universität München).

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Recent developments in the patent system; Strategies and motives for filing patents; Organization of patent management; Patenting and market structure; Patent arms races