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 … welfare. It shows that requiring pool members to be able to independently license patents matters if and only if the pool is …

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 …

We examine whether the introduction of a patent commons, a special type of royalty free patent pool available to the … based on an OSS license. The marginal impact of The Commons on OSS entry is increasing in the cumulativeness of innovation … in the market and the extent to which patent ownership in the market is concentrated …

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 …

A “patent box” is a term for the application of a lower corporate tax rate to the income derived from the ownership of … patents filed 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, and …

incumbents and entrants in a cumulative innovation environment; that is, entrants may not be adequately compensated for losses in …