The paper analyzes the interplay between technology diffusion and patent law. We develop a dynamic model where initial … diffusion paths under competitive supply, subsidized adoption and patent protection. Competitive supply entails various … coordination failures that cannot be fully …fixed through a public subsidy. We show that a patent holder can internalize …

-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 …

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 … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be … a patent pool may actually be pro-competitive. After a brief introduction, we explain in the first part why, and on what …

licenses and the creation of patent commons, are a testiment to a genuinely creative use of IP law by the open source community …