fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …It may be advantageous to provide a variety of kinds of patent protection to heterogenous innovations. Innovations … protection in order to be encouraged. We model the problem of designing an optimal patent menu (scope and length) when the …

product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding …, that patent protection can complement competition in inducing innovation …Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this …

We consider the differential incentives of the North and the South to provide patent protection to innovating firms in … development of technologies most suited to their needs. This provides a motive for the South to provide patent protection even … global planner will set equal rates of patent protection only when it weights the welfare of the two regions equally. We find …

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 …

after the end of the process and fully exploit their bargaining leverage, then patent holders aspire to disclose always … after the end of the process. However, if a patent holder cannot rely on the other participants to always contribute to the … cross-licensing agreements that eliminate the strategic aspect of patent disclosure, and show that, in an institutional …

are those with lower quality patents. We empirically examine patent disclosures made to seven large SSOs, and find results …

The use of "pay-for-delay" settlements in patent litigation - in which a branded manufacturer and generic entrant … settle a Paragraph IV patent challenge and agree to forestall entry - has come under considerable scrutiny in recent years … should have expired, while proponents argue they reinforce incentives for innovation. We estimate the impact of settlements …

analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …

This paper surveys the major changes in patent policy and practice that have occurred in the last two decades in the U … effects of changes in patent policy. Despite the significance of the policy changes and the wide availability of detailed data … relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …