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Waiting to imitate: on the dynamic pricing of knowledge
Henry, Emeric; Ponce, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study the problem of an inventor who brings to the market an innovation that can be legally copied. Imitators may 'enter' the market by copying the innovation at a cost or by buying from the inventor the knowledge necessary to reproduce and use the invention. The possibility of contracting...
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Patent Suits: Do They Distort Research Incentives?
Lanjouw, Jenny; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
&D) incentives. We examine the characteristics of litigated patents by combining, for the first time, information about patent case … random sample of US patents from the same cohorts and technology areas, we show that case filings are much more common in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124091
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The Economic Value of Patent Portfolios
Gambardella, Alfonso; Harhoff, Dietmar; Verspagen, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Patent holders may choose to protect innovations with single patents or to develop portfolios of multiple, related … number of related patents or investing in higher value of patents in the portfolio. We estimate the derived value equation … of inventions in a portfolio may reflect both genuine creation of value or stronger appropriability via patents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083853
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Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation
Noel, Michael D.; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Strategic patenting is widely believed to raise the costs of innovating, especially in industries characterised by cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792508
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The Value of European Patents
Gambardella, Alfonso; Harhoff, Dietmar; Verspagen, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
private economic value of patents. The estimated mean of our patent value distribution is higher than 3 million Euros, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792528
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Patent Thickets, Judicial Enforcement and the Market for Innovation: Theory and Evidence from Patent Litigation
Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We study how fragmentation of patent rights ('patent thickets') and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing. We develop a model of patent litigation which predicts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656440
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Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy and University Knowledge Diffusion
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Using new data on citations to university patents and scientific publications, and measures of distance based on Google … maps, we study how geography affects university knowledge diffusion. We show that knowledge flows from patents are … is larger for patents from public, as compared to private, universities and this is partly explained by the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642874
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Impacts of Patent Expiry and Regulatory Policies on Daily Cost of Pharmaceutical Treatments: OECD Countries, 2004-2010
Berndt, Ernst R; Dubois, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Cross-country variability in regulatory frameworks, industrial policy, physician/pharmacy autonomy, brand/generic distinctions, and in the practice of medicine contributes to ambiguous interpretations of pharmaceutical cost comparisons. Here we report cross-country comparisons that: (i) focus on...
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Venture Capital, Patenting, and Usefulness of Innovations
Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
acquire valuable ideas, develop them beyond the level incumbents would have chosen, and use patents to signal their companies …
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Does Europe have an innovation policy? The case of EU economic law
Battaglia, Lauren; Larouche, Pierre; Negrinotti, Matteo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper is the first of a larger project aimed at exploring, among other things, whether Europe has a consistent innovation policy in the context of EU economic law (competition policy, intellectual property law, sector regulation). As such, its primary aim is to present our approach for...
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