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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition

Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...

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The effect of regulatory harmonization on cross-border labor migration : evidence from the accounting profession

Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Brüggemann, Ulf; Christensen, … - 2015

question, we analyze European Union (EU) initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory … harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers, essentially making it easier for accounting professionals to move across … countries. Our research design compares the cross-border migration of accounting professionals relative to tightly-matched other …

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Spite in litigation

Mill, Wladislaw; Stäbler, Jonathan - 2023

This paper studies how litigation and settlement behavior is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American and the English fee-shifting rule. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures and settlement requests are higher for more spiteful...

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Conflict, settlement, and the shadow of the future

McBride, Michael; Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009

In many instances of potential violent or non-violent conflict the future strategic positions of adversaries are very different when there is open conflict than when there is settlement. In such environments we show that, as the future becomes more important, open conflict becomes more likely...

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Emotions in litigation contests

Baumann, Florian; Friehe, Tim - 2011

This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...

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A theory of patent portfolios

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2013

This paper develops a theory of patent portfolios in which firms accumulate an enormous amount of related patents in diverse technology fields such that it becomes impractical to develop a new product that with certainty does not inadvertently infringe on other firms ́patent portfolios. We...

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Patent pools, litigation and innovation

Choi, Jay Pil; Gerlach, Heiko A. - 2013

This paper analyzes patent pools and their effects on innovation incentives. It is shown that the pro-competitive effects of patent pools for complementary patents naturally extend for dynamic innovation incentives. However, this simple conclusion may not hold if we entertain the possibility...

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FRAND royalties and injunctions for standard essential patents

Choi, Jay Pil - 2014

I develop a stylized model of court procedures that resolve disputes concerning FRAND-encumbered standard essential patents (SEPs). I analyze the effects of injunctions and potential court-imposed FRAND rates on negotiated royalty rates. The SEP-holders' ability to hold-up is constrained by the...

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Inside post-socialist courts : the determinants of adjudicatory outcomes in Slovenian commercial disputes

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2014

Despite the judiciary's central role in the capitalist market system, micro-level empirical analyses of courts in post-socialist countries are remarkably rare. This paper draws on a unique hand-collected dataset of commercial claims filed at Slovenian courts to examine the determinants of two...

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Rules of proof, courts, and incentives

Demougin, Dominique (contributor); Fluet, Claude (contributor) - 2007

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