By using the PatVal-EU dataset we find that the most important determinant of patent licensing is firm size. Patent …

the primary patent covering an innovation and whether the innovating firm's licenses its innovation or raises external … finance at certain stages of the firm/product's development, and thereby enable the firm to delay licensing, obtaining patent … effects from the empirical analysis, the theory suggests that patent filing may act as a signal to financial investors that …

powerful strategic tool: the offers that he makes to the patent holder will affect the royalty rate that the Court may adopt as … availability of injunctions, the holder of a sufficiently weak patent will end up accepting below FRAND rates, in particular when … sufficiently strong patent will always end up in litigation by rejecting offers below FRAND. This arises in particular when the …

supported in a framework where patent protection for minor incremental innovations is not allowed. The study also suggests that … necessary to grant and sustain compulsory licenses/government use. If patent applications were correctly scrutinized, there …