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Lerner, Josh - 2015

A major policy issue in standard setting is that patents that are ex-ante not that important may, by being included into the standard, become standard-essential patents (SEPs). In an attempt to curb the monopoly power that they create, most standard-setting organizations require the owners of...

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Cooperative Marketing Agreements Between Competitors : Evidence from Patent Pools

Lerner, Josh - 2003

theoretical predictions: (a) pools involving substitute patents are unlikely to allow pool members to license patents …

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Efficient Patent Pools

Lerner, Josh - 2002

The paper builds a tractable model of a patent pool, an agreement among patent owners to license a set of their patents … welfare. It shows that requiring pool members to be able to independently license patents matters if and only if the pool is … form a pool or to cross-license when they themselves are users of the patents in the pool …

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Standard-Essential Patents

Lerner, Josh - 2013

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Valuing Patents for Licensing : A Practical Survey of the Literature

Layne-Farrar, Anne - 2013

A number of methods exist for valuing a patent in order to license it to an external party. Several of these methods … on the incentives at play in license negotiations may also be necessary. In other words, do any unique principal …

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Efficient Patent Pools

Tirole, Jean; Lerner, Josh - 2021

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Cooperative Marketing Agreements between Competitors : Evidence from Patent Pools

Tirole, Jean - 2014

theoretical predictions: (a) pools involving substitute patents are unlikely to allow pool members to license patents …

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The Simple Economics of Open Source

Lerner, Josh - 2000

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open...

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The Economics of Technology Sharing : Open Source and Beyond

Lerner, Josh - 2004

This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as...

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The Scope of Open Source Licensing

Lerner, Josh - 2002

This paper is an initial exploration of the determinants of open source license choice. It first enumerates the various … presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of license choice using the Source Forge database, a compilation of nearly …

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