paper empirically examines one such institution: the patent pool. The analysis highlights five findings consistent with the … overlapping patent holdings; and (e) during the most recent era, when an intense awareness of antitrust concerns precluded many … competition-harming patent pools, more important patents were selected for pools and patents selected for pools were subsequently …

international patent applications in the US, Japan, the European Patent Office, and corresponding filings in three developing … undertake detailed analyses of patent prosecution in the three developing countries. Our analyses indicate that measures to … procedural aspects of patent systems, beyond the formal policies targeting secondary applications, that affect outcomes for these …

lower prices. Innovation prizes and other non-patent rewards are becoming more prevalent in government's innovation policy …, and are also widely implemented by private philanthropists. In this paper we develop a model in which a patent buyout is … model still involves some form of patent buyout. The buyout uses two key pieces of information: market outcomes observed …

A low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are … supported by estimates from litigation studies suggesting that the majority of patents granted by the U.S. patent office should … not have been issued. This paper proposes a new Bayesian method for measuring patent quality, based on twin 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 …

flows from university inventions through two important channels: non-market 'spillovers' exemplified by patent citations and …

associated with university patent licensing are detrimental to the traditional mission of US research universities. We assume a …

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 …