Maurer, Stephen M.; Scotchmer, Suzanne - In: American Law and Economics Review 8 (2006) 3, pp. 476-522
We address the patent/antitrust conflict in licensing and develop three guiding principles for deciding acceptable terms of license. Profit neutrality holds that patent rewards should not depend on the rightholder's ability to work the patent himself. Derived reward holds that the patentholder's...