This paper analyzes the relationship between technology licensing and the effectiveness of patent protection. Using the … the patenting and licensing decisions are jointly determined. We find that increases in the effectiveness of patent … unimportant. In contrast, for firms better positioned to bring new technologies to market, increases in patent effectiveness …

Many high technology goods are based on standards that require access to several patents that are owned by different IP … rates and reduce output as compared to non-integration. Horizontal integration of IP holders (or a patent pool) solves the …

Many high technology goods are based on standards that require access to several patents that are owned by different IP … rates and reduce output as compared to non-integration. Horizontal integration of IP holders (or a patent pool) solves the …

v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed …The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … embodies this power, but does it fulfill its essential purpose? This Note explores the scope of the exclusive rights of patents …

This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding …

Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repeatedly fail to … misbehavior, we can catch a glimpse of the social roles patents play when no one is watching. Drawing on insights from the … sociology of markets, I argue that patents are surreptitiously performing functions familiar from the grocery store, the …

The objective of this paper is to compare the impact of R&D competition (i) under patent protection and (ii) under no … patent protection on enterprise innovation and performance with the impact of R&D cooperation in the form of R&D cartel on … spillovers, the R&D investments under patent protection are smaller than in the case of no patent protection. When firms create a …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent … functioning of the contemporary patent system. We find that patenting firms are being less confronted with imitation. The effect …