of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so … patent law. This paper provides a model identifying the incentives for firms to deliberately obscure their inventive … knowledge in a patent specification. …

of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so … patent law. This paper provides a model identifying the incentives for firms to deliberately obscure their inventive … knowledge in a patent specification. …

of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so … to patent law. This paper provides a model identifying the incentives for firms to deliberately obscure their inventive … knowledge in a patent specification …

subsidizing the costs of patent applications has no impact on the outcome …

effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application … patent are negatively related as opposed to common intuition, (ii) in industries with imperfect appropriability in case of … secrecy the extent of the technological lead is positively associated with the propensity to patent, and that (iii) the …

patent searches and an in-depth description of the main patent classification systems are also provided. When judging whether …

To study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening, we develop an integrative framework incorporating … four main policy instruments: patent office examination, pre- and post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show …. Simulations of the model, calibrated on U.S. patent and litigation data, indicate that patenting is socially excessive and the …

controversial changes to its patent policy. The changes include a recommended method of calculation of FRAND royalty rates, and a … request to members holding a standard essential patent (SEP) to forego their right to seek an injunction except under limited … discussing the role of patent policies of Standard-Setting Organizations (SSO) and the rules and principles applicable to the …

-stacking effect would hurt efficiency and downstream competition. In this paper we show that when we consider patent litigation and … Cournot effect. We show that the lower the total royalty that a downstream producer pays, the lower the royalty that patent … in the royalty that unconstrained large patent holders will charge that may overturn some of the standard predictions in …