Such institutions as patent systems cannot be well understood without an assessment of technological creativity in … success of the invention. Prize-oriented institutions thus appear to be less systematic and not as market-oriented as patent …

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 …

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 … in the market and the extent to which patent ownership in the market is concentrated …

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 …