We study how fragmentation of patent rights ('patent thickets') and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the … Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing …. We develop a model of patent litigation which predicts faster settlement agreements when patent rights are fragmented and …

patenting is a minority activity: a majority of the faculty members in our sample never patent, and publication rates far … knowledge generation and transfer from MIT: patent volume does not predict publication volume, and those firms that cite MIT … papers are in general not the same firms as those that cite MIT patents. However, patent volume is positively correlated with …