We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific … 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 …

protection across industries to appropriate innovation. …

category of rules consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R …) provides higher incentives for sequential and initial innovation and may be preferred by a public regulator when sunk …

in terms of innovation and use of legal proceedings. …

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 …

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