This note gives a short proof that both fixed-fee and royalty licensing under patent protection can always create …

the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South raises an MNE's profit and stimulates inward FDI and licensing …

: as patents that infringe on prior art, as licensing through an optimally designed ever-growing patent pool, and as …

Licensing can be a solution for hold-up in patent thickets. In this paper we study whether licensing is an effective … solution for hold-up. To do this we distinguish between ex ante and ex post licensing. A theoretical model shows that firms …’ expectations of blocking in a patent thicket determine whether they license ex ante while ex post licensing arises if expected …

We analyze a two-period licensing game in which a non-producer upstream patent holder licenses an innovation to either …

licensing opportunities after the announcement of the tax rates by the government. Anderson et al. (2001) shows that in such a … case ad valorem tax welfare dominates the unit tax. However, it ignores the licensing possibilities. Interestingly, it is … shown in the present paper that in case of fixed-fee licensing unit tax sometimes dominates ad valorem tax. However, unit …

We model an innovator's choice of payment scheme and duration as a joint decision in a multi-period licensing game with …-consistency problem faced by the innovator. Our results suggest that licensing contracts based on royalty have a longer duration than …

, technology licensing, confidential agreement etc. how can all these issues be resolved before or during collaboration, so that a …