the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …In this paper, I empirically study the effect of IEEE’s IPR policy change in 2015 on standard related innovation. I … construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment …

importance for innovation, technology transfer and economic growth. As such, this important normative material also provides a … settlements; (iii) issues concerning standard-essential patents (SEPs); (iv) the conduct of patent assertion entities (PAEs); and …Competition agency guidelines, policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression …

We show that the common wisdom suggesting higher investment in innovation under a stronger patent protection may not be … true if the innovator can license its technology ex‐post innovation. If the initial cost of production is high and the … slope of the marginal cost of undertaking innovation is moderate, investment in innovation is maximised at a patent …