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Who Needs a Copyright Small Claims Court? Evidence from the U.K.'s IP Enterprise Court

Helmers, Christian - 2018

tribunal within the U.S. Copyright Office is gaining traction. Legislation introduced in each of the last two congressional … terms, known in its present form as the CASE Act of 2017, would create a "Copyright Claims Board" to hear and decide … relatively small claims of copyright infringement on an accelerated basis, with streamlined procedures and a cap on recoverable …

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Technology entry in the presence of patent thickets

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian; von Graevenitz, Georg - 2016

We analyze the effect of patent thickets on entry into technology areas by firms in the UK. We present a model that describes incentives to enter technology areas characterized by varying technological opportunity, complexity of technology, and the potential for hold-up in patent thickets. We...

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Are joint patents collusive? : evidence from the US and Europe

Fosfuri, Andrea; Helmers, Christian; Roux, Catherine - 2013

We investigate whether patents that are jointly held by legally independent companies help sustain product-market collusion. We use a simple model of repeated interactions to show that joint patents can serve collusive purposes. Our model generates two testable predictions: when joint patents...

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Technology entry in the presence of patent thickets

Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian; Graevenitz, Georg von - 2016

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Do Board Interlocks Increase Innovation? Evidence from a Corporate Governance Reform in India

Helmers, Christian - 2017

We examine the effect of board interlocks on patenting and R&D spending for publicly traded companies in India. We exploit a corporate governance reform to address the endogeneity of board interlocks through exogenous changes mandated by the reform requiring a subset of firms to adjust their...

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Do Board Interlocks Increase Innovation? Evidence from a Corporate Governance Reform in India

Helmers, Christian - 2017

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The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property: A Review

Hall, Bronwyn; Helmers, Christian; Rogers, Mark; Sena, Vania - In: Journal of Economic Literature 52 (2014) 2, pp. 375-423

We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the trade-offs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look briefly at the use of other means of formal...

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Inter Partes Review and the Design of Post-Grant Patent Reviews

Chien, Colleen V.; Helmers, Christian; Spigarelli, Alfred - 2019

Inter partes review (IPR) is one of a number of mechanisms for eliminating improper patents through review of patents post-grant. While the purpose of IPRs is to provide a cheaper, more expert alternative to litigation for screening out bad patents, the devil is in the design details. For...

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An Empirical Test of Patent Hold-Out Theory : Evidence from Litigation of Standard Essential Patents

Helmers, Christian; Love, Brian J. - 2021

The theory of patent “hold-out” posits that frictions in the market for licensing standard-essential patents (SEPs) provide incentive for prospective licensees to opportunistically delay taking licenses. We derive empirically testable predictions from the literature supporting hold-out...

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Is There a Patent Troll Problem in the UK?

Helmers, Christian; Love, Brian J.; McDonagh, Luke - 2014

This paper reports the findings of an empirical study of patent suits involving non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the U.K. between 2000 and 2010. Overall, we find that NPEs are responsible for 11% of all patent suits filed in the U.K. during this period. Though this is a small percentage by U.S....

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