existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate … to address problems with the current patent system: 3) How do patent pools, as a mechanism to mitigate litigation risks …

Members of a patent pool agree to use a set of patents as if they were jointly owned by all members and license them as … the first patent pool in U.S. history, the Sewing Machine Combination (1856-1877) to perform the first empirical test of … the effects of a patent pool on innovation. Contrary to theoretical predictions, the sewing machine pool appears to have …

patent. The discovery of the periodic table in 1869 offers an opportunity to test this idea. Exhibition data show that …

Patent pools, which allow competing firms to combine their patents, have emerged as a prominent mechanism to resolve …

The Plant Patent Act of 1930 was the first step towards creating property rights for biological innovation: it … introduced patent rights for asexually-propagated plants. This paper uses data on plant patents and registrations of new …

I Introduction -- II Partnership Dissolution Mechanisms -- III The Influence of Patents and Subsidies on R&D Investment …

To explore damage rules’ deterrent effect, we use a public good experiment to tailor allowable punishment to rules used … Experiment ; Class actions ; Tort ; Damages ; Punitive damages …