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 …

The continuations procedure within the U.S. patent system has been criticized for enabling firms to manipulate the … patent review process for strategic purposes. Changes during the 1990s in patent procedures affected the incentives of … by R&D-intensive, small firms that patent heavily, and are more common in chemical and biological technologies. Patents …

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 …

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 …

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 …