to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third parties to patented climate change related …

technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for … innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …

In this article we develop a model to analyze patent-protected R&D investment projects when there is (imperfect …

The impact of patent pools on the rate and direction of technological change is an open question in both theoretical … and empirical studies. Economic theory makes no unequivocal prediction. By contrast, empirical studies of patent pools, to … date, have largely concluded that patent pools have been associated with reduced rates of technical innovation in the …

Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding … positively to the product market reform in industries of countries where patent rights are strong, not where these are weak. The …

existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate … to address problems with the current patent system: 3) How do patent pools, as a mechanism to mitigate litigation risks …

. We identify research inputs based on a natural language analysis of 10 billion word and word sequence patent pairs in 6 …, we develop also a new measure of patent value. The measure distinguishes between citations that reflect the cumulative …

Patent pools, which allow competing firms to combine their patents, have emerged as a prominent mechanism to resolve …