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Recent work suggests that Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) — or “patent trolls” — are a new form of financial … intermediary. According to this view, individual patent holders are unable to contract with large manufacturers because they lack … the financial resources necessary to litigate against infringement. Since individual patent holders are heterogeneous in …
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construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment … not declared a patent as essential to IEEE (the control group). Using a difference-in-differences approach, I provide … the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …
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This paper proposes a search strategy for photovoltaic patents which allows to distinguish the photovoltaic system into sub-trajectories. Identifying and analyzing sub-trajectories is of particular importance for understanding micro patterns of technological change. The proposed search strategy...
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-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that …
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jurisdictions, comprising: (i) the treatment of licensing practices, including refusals to license; (ii) anti-competitive patent … settlements; (iii) issues concerning standard-essential patents (SEPs); (iv) the conduct of patent assertion entities (PAEs); and …
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discusses how patent-like rights (such as "data exclusivity") prevent lower-cost generic medicines from entering into the …
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The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed … system starts with an initial exclusive patent period that is much shorter, and then includes renewable periods of …
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attendant constellation of tacit knowledge regarding the interpretation and application of the information in the patent. The … through the patent system also provides important stability to attendant tacit knowledge. Patent doctrines regarding prior art … patent procurement and enforcement must take such effects into account …
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An “invention,” as used in the United States patent laws, refers to anything made by man that employs or harnesses a …
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Article I USPTO’s patent invalidation power. A number of these challenges remain pending today. This article addresses several …
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