The infamous Blackberry case brought new attention to so-called 'patent trolls' and began the general association of trolls with 'non-practicing' patent holders. This has had important legal consequences: Namely, patent holders have been denied injunctive relief because they did not practice the...

Much has been written - especially in recent years - regarding the perceived problem of quot;over patentingquot; within cooperative standard setting. Because standards are thought to frequently convey market power to those firms whose patented technologies are included in the standard, the...

Gilbert and Katz (2006) (GK) show that allowing (pure) patent bundling increases the incentives for patent owners to enter into “long-term” patent licensing that commits them not to expropriate licensees’ sunk costs in complementary assets with opportunistic licensing terms. We interpret...