Patent pools have become a prominent mechanism to reduce litigation risks and facilitate the commercialization of new … that would form in the absence of effective antitrust. Difference-in-differences regressions of patents and patent … citations across 20 industries imply a 14 percent decline in patenting for each additional patent that is included in a pool. An …

existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction – as opposed to the rate … to address problems with the current patent system: 3) How do patent pools, as a mechanism to mitigate litigation risks …

the patent or transfer of technology to others who do, or indirectly, when others copy the patented innovation. The … available evidence suggests, however, that patent licensing demands and lawsuits from NPEs are normally not cases that involve … that even if various commercialization theories can sometimes justify patent protection, they cannot justify most NPE …

Repeat patent plaintiffs - those who sue eight or more times on the same patents - have a disproportionate effect on … the patent system. They are responsible for a sizeable fraction of all patent lawsuits. Their patents should be among the … strongest, according to all economic measures of patent quality. And logic suggests that repeat patent plaintiffs should be risk …