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 …

Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat … is needed for successful utilization of this policy. -- R&D collaboration ; intellectual property ; uncertainty ; patents …

Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat …

This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …

mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both …

-2013 (OECD-EUIPO, 2016) with financial information and patent data from 2009 to 2015. The result is a firm-level database that … of patents. However, seizures enacted in defence of patents are those that have the highest mean value. The analysis of … profitability (return on total assets), prior to the window of observation. Target companies also have on average larger patent …

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 …