inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific …

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 …

How do financial markets respond to firms' efforts at innovation ? To answer this question, we measure innovation by … creating a synthetic indicator based on a firm's recent history of R&D expenditure and patent applications. We focus on four 2 …. Whilst standard regression techniques find a positive relationship between innovation and growth, quantile regression …

This paper investigates the choice of an intellectual protection regime for a process innovation. We set up a multi …-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters : the patent strength defined as … the probability that the right is upheld by the court, the cost of imitating a patented innovation relative to the cost of …

the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers …, 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 …

the main strategic implications of such a complex picture. We first survey the main patent functions : innovation … protection, functions related to trade and finance, defensive roles, and patent as an input in the innovation process. We then … how complex patents are. The goal of this paper is to present an overview of all identified functions of patents and of …

in sectoral evolution that can be explained by the properties of the knowledge base. We use European Patent Office data …

Ce texte fait partie d'une étude générale sur les patents wars américaines de la fin du XIXème et du début du XXème … siècle, dans trois industries émergentes : l'industrie du cinéma et les patents Edison, l'industrie automobile et l …'affaire du brevet Selden, l'industrie de l'aviation et les patents des frères Wright. L'analyse est comparative, entre Etats …