are those with lower quality patents. We empirically examine patent disclosures made to seven large SSOs, and find results …

patent race where firms do R&D to develop products that are close substitutes. The effects of a standard are shown to depend …

A major policy issue in standard setting is that patents that are ex-ante not that important may, by being included … into the standard, become standard-essential patents (SEPs). In an attempt to curb the monopoly power that they create …, most standard-setting organizations require the owners of patents covered by the standard to make a loose commitment to …

This paper compares reward systems to intellectual property rights (patents and copyrights). Under a reward system …

consumption effects, e.g. the analysis of the welfare effects of patent regulations. This paper analyzes the joint problem of the … well-understood that efficient competition ex-post leads to insufficient R&D incentives ex-ante, which is of course the … common rationale for patents. For external effects, this analogy has the important and unrecognized implication that classic …

start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is …, asymmetric information, or search costs may retard efficient technology transfer. In these cases, reductions in uncertainty … information about cooperative licensing and the timing of patent allowances (the administrative event when patent rights are …

Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical … not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts and citation-weighted) and … flourish. Second, national patent law implementation demonstrates conditional importance for innovation acceleration and …

This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators … to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third parties to patented climate change related … innovations. By comparing the pledged patents to other patents in the same technologies or held by the same multinationals, we …

Patent pools, which allow competing firms to combine their patents, have emerged as a prominent mechanism to resolve … litigation when multiple firms own patents for the same technology. This paper takes advantage of a window of regulatory … discourage innovation by weakening competition to improve substitutes …