This paper addresses the problem of non-cooperative patent pool formation by owners of patents related to a standard. We develop a model in which competing manufacturers must license several patents to produce standard-compliant goods. Separate licensing creates a double-marginalization problem....

In this paper we study how the migration from an old to a new technology is affected by the access price to the old technology, when it is set after investments have taken place. We show that both the incumbent and the regulator are willing to set a very high access price to accelerate...