number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also … exist with the patent-granting process, they do not rise to the level of justifying a ban on software patents. Instead …

technologies are included in the standard, the concern is that quot;strategicquot; patenting, driven not by innovation but by rent … possibility may be likely as well: that at least some portion of ex post patenting is driven by genuine innovation. The question …

The infamous Blackberry case brought new attention to so-called 'patent trolls' and began the general association of … trolls with 'non-practicing' patent holders. This has had important legal consequences: Namely, patent holders have been … denied injunctive relief because they did not practice the patents themselves. In this paper we analyze how patent holders …

Under the legal doctrine of first sale, or patent exhaustion, a patent holder's ability to license multiple parties … application of patent exhaustion. To the contrary, we show there are often private and social advantages to charging royalties at … default rule but can be easily overwritten in patent contracts …

under development within the SDO are typically bound by so-called FRAND commitments – promises from the patent holder to … commitments impose certain constraints on the terms and conditions that patent holders may seek from licensees in comparison to … debate for at least a decade. The particular constraint discussed in this paper is whether FRAND prohibits patent portfolio …

Gilbert and Katz (2006) (GK) show that allowing (pure) patent bundling increases the incentives for patent owners to … enter into “long-term” patent licensing that commits them not to expropriate licensees’ sunk costs in complementary assets … framework to analyze the tying of non-RAND-committed patents to RAND-committed patents. Pure patent bundling/tying is common and …