The analysis provides conditions under which Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs) choose efficient technology … standards. I introduce a two-stage game with both voting and market competition. In equilibrium, standards and market outcomes … are efficient even with market power from scarce capacity and Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). I show that a drastic …

patents (SEPs). I analyze the effects of injunctions and potential court-imposed FRAND rates on negotiated royalty rates. The …

At which stage in the production chain should patent licensing takes place? In this paper we show that under realistic … circumstances a patent holder would be better off by licensing downstream. This occurs when the licensing revenue can depend on the … when, instead, we assume that the downstream licensee is less informed about the validity of the patent. In most cases …