Langinier, Corinne - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
applications. Following Green andScotchmer (1995), we also wonder whether broad basic patents are necessary to provideenough … incentives for basic innovators. We show that patent pools are more likely to beformed with patents of very different breadth, or … patents of similarly wide breadth. Further,even though patent pools rectify the problem of developers’ incentives, they may …