information about cooperative licensing and the timing of patent allowances (the administrative event when patent rights are … significantly increases after patent allowance. Moreover, the impact of the patent system depends on the strategic and institutional … environment in which firms operate. Patent allowance seems to play a particularly important role for technologies with longer …

For over a century, courts and commentators have struggled to find principles that reconcile patent and antitrust law …, especially as to patent licensing. We interpret case law and commentary to arrive at three unifying principles for acceptable … terms of license. Profit neutrality' holds that patent rewards should not depend on the rightholder's ability to work the …

The paper builds a tractable model of a patent pool, an agreement among patent owners to license a set of their patents … to one another or to third parties. It first provides a necessary and suñcient condition for a patent pool to enhance …

A "patent box" is a term for the application of a lower corporate tax rate to the income derived from the ownership of … patent filings at the European Patent Office, including information on ownership transfers pre- and post-grant, we … investigate the impact of the introduction of a patent box on international patent transfers, on the choice of ownership location …

We examine whether the introduction of a patent commons, a special type of royalty free patent pool available to the … in the market and the extent to which patent ownership in the market is concentrated …

institutional change benefitted patent holders, explains the burst in U.S. patenting. Using both international and" domestic data on … patent applications and awards, we conclude that the evidence is not favorable" to the conventional view. Instead, it appears …

This survey reviews the growing use of patent data in economic analysis. After describing some of the main … characteristics of patents and patent data, it focuses on the use of patents as an indicator of technological change. Cross … the distribution of patent values and the value of patent rights, the latter being based on recent analyses of European …