firms raise the concern of collusive behaviour for protecting weak patents and delaying price competition through generic … consumer welfare: (1) price effects, (2) innovation incentive effects, and (3) effects via the incentives to challenge weak … patents. The paper critically analyzes the existing economic studies and identifies a number of research gaps, especially also …

firms raise the concern of collusive behaviour for protecting weak patents and delaying price competition through generic … consumer welfare: (1) price effects, (2) innovation incentive effects, and (3) effects via the incentives to challenge weak … patents. The paper critically analyzes the existing economic studies and identifies a number of research gaps, especially also …

The issuance of weak patents is widely viewed as a fundamental problem in the current US patent system. Reasons that … have been offered for the granting of weak patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) include examiners … a systematic problem of weak patents likely exists, and suggests that the problem may be more strongly attributable to …

downstream users compete, two-part tariffs for weak patents have high running royalty rates, combined with a negative fixed fee …