Bekkers, Rudi; Bongard, René; Nuvolari, Alessandro - In: Research Policy 40 (2011) 7, pp. 1001-1015
In the field of compatibility standards, an increasing number of companies claim to own so-called essential patents (i.e. those patents that are indispensable for designing and manufacturing products conforming to the standard). It is widely believed that the ownership of such patents is a very...