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SUMMARY:MTEI Student Seminar by Ali Mohammadi
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DTEND:20131106T133000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Ali Mohammadi\, PhD Student\, School from Politecnico di Milan
 o\n"The Fate of Patents: An Exploratory Analysis of Patents as IPO Signals
  of Reputation Advantage"\nDiscussant: Markus SimethAbstract:\nDrawing on 
 the reputation literature and signaling theory\, this article builds on wo
 rk that looks at patents as reputation signals.  We build a multi-industr
 y database of patents that expire due to lack of maintenance fee payments 
 and test for a relationship between these patents and the firm’s IPO dat
 e. We find a significant and positive relationship between the likelihood 
 of patents expiring due to lack of maintenance fee payments and the time t
 o IPO. We also find that patents associated with firms which are not ventu
 re capital backed\,  are more likely to expire.  Our findings suggest th
 at patents that are used for signaling intentions are  more likely to  b
 e underutilized.  Implications for research and policy are discussed.
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