The strengthening of the U.S. patent regime in the early eighties was followed by a sharp increase in patenting but did … development to examine the effects of a patent regime change on the patenting and R&D decisions of firms in complex industries … consider two different environment — one without licensing and one with licensing. While a stronger patent regime leads to …

higher rewards where "ideas are scarce." We then explore how rewards should be structured when the value of an innovation … comes from its applications, and ideas for the innovation may be more or less scarce than ideas for the applications. …

higher rewards where "ideas are scarce." We then explore how rewards should be structured when the value of an innovation … comes from its applications, and ideas for the innovation may be more or less scarce than ideas for the applications. …

international licensing agreements developed with the French Patent office (INPI). As a main result, we highlight a stronger …

innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative …, only the largest firms were likely to identify patents as the most important method of appropriating innovation returns … regarding the functioning of the existing systems of intellectual property rights when key policy goals include innovation by …

heavily on the valuation of patent rights, as this gives a possible measurement of innovation output. …In 2004 the German Patent and Trademark Office commissioned the Ifo Institute to deliver a research report on the topic … "Identification of Available and Desirable Indicators for Patent Systems, Patenting Processes and Patent Rights". - The report …

The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision … panel of standards, we then confirm empirically the prediction that consortia have different effects on innovation under a … Public Good or Rent Seeking regime. Overall, we observe an increase in innovation after a firm joined a consortium. However …

innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be used to overcome a time …

innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be more profitable than fixed-fee licensing …

sufficiently better at judging an idea's value and if it is sufficiently more costly to patent low than high value ideas, VCs …-run performance, but also infl ates their acquisition prices, and lowers their acquirers' overall profits. Patent law usefulness …