-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters : the patent strength defined as … whereas small innovations are always patented. Furthermore, medium innovations are patented only when patent strength is … sufficiently high. Finally, we investigate a class of licensing agreements used to settle patent disputes between patent holders …

destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using detailed data on patents …

inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent …From the perspective of antitrust authorities, the multiplication of patents embodied in technology standards is a … source of concerns. Certainly it is necessary and efficient that patents owners derive a revenue from the use of the standard …

, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however be seen as a threat for … licenses and the creation of patent commons, are a testiment to a genuinely creative use of IP law by the open source community …

This paper explores the decentralized licensing of complementary patents reading on a technology standard. We develop a … model in which manufacturers must buy licenses from different patent owners in order to enter the market for differentiated …