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Efficient Patent Pools
Lerner, Josh - 2002
The paper builds a tractable model of a patent pool, an agreement among patent owners to license a set of their patents … welfare. It shows that requiring pool members to be able to independently license patents matters if and only if the pool is … form a pool or to cross-license when they themselves are users of the patents in the pool …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469535
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Standard-Essential Patents
Lerner, Josh - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458998
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The Simple Economics of Open Source
Lerner, Josh - 2000
There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471170
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The Scope of Open Source Licensing
Lerner, Josh - 2002
This paper is an initial exploration of the determinants of open source license choice. It first enumerates the various … presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of license choice using the Source Forge database, a compilation of nearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469340