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Patent Commons, Thickets, and Open Source Software Entry by Start-Up Firms

Wen, Wen - 2013

based on an OSS license. The marginal impact of The Commons on OSS entry is increasing in the cumulativeness of innovation …

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The Dynamic Efficiency in Resource Allocation : Evidence from Vehicle License Lotteries in Beijing

Liu, Youming - 2020

The efficiency of resource allocation is often analyzed in static frameworks with a focus on the cross-sectional heterogeneity in the willingness to pay among users. When the resource is durable in nature, the temporal heterogeneity could be important in assessing the efficiency properties of...

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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market For Ideas : Evidence From Patent Grant Delays

Gans, Joshua S. - 2007

This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of cooperation/licensing by start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is independent of whether IP has already been granted. In contrast,...

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Measuring the Efficiency of an FCC Spectrum Auction

Bajari, Patrick - 2005

FCC spectrum auctions sell licenses to provide mobile phone service in designated geographic territories. We propose a method to structurally estimate the deterministic component of bidder valuations and apply it to the 1995-1996 C-block auction. We base our estimation of bidder values on a...

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Are There Real Effects of Licensing on Academic Research? A Life Cycle View

Thursby, Marie - 2005

system, licensing has a positive effect on research output except when the incentives to license are very high …

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Shirking, Sharing Risk, and Shelving : The Role of University License Contracts

Thursby, Marie - 2005

In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of university licensing to explain why university license contracts often … the license back from a shelving firm. This supports the rationale for Bayh-Dole march-in rights but also shows the need …

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Profit Neutrality in Licensing : The Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law

Maurer, Stephen M. - 2004

terms of license. Profit neutrality' holds that patent rewards should not depend on the rightholder's ability to work the …

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Efficient Patent Pools

Lerner, Josh - 2002

The paper builds a tractable model of a patent pool, an agreement among patent owners to license a set of their patents … welfare. It shows that requiring pool members to be able to independently license patents matters if and only if the pool is … form a pool or to cross-license when they themselves are users of the patents in the pool …

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Quantity Controls, License Transferability, and the Level of Investment

Krishna, Kala - 2002

This paper models investment/entry decisions in a competitive industry that is subject to a quantity control on an input for production. The quantity control is implemented by auctioning licenses for the restricted input. The paper shows that liberalizing the quantity control could reduce...

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Proofs and Prototypes for Sale : The Tale of University Licensing

Jensen, Richard - 1998

Proponents of the Bayh-Dole Act argue that unless universities have the right to license patentable inventions, many …

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