Antitrust policy for the pooling of patents and other intellectual property rights has undergone a dramatic … developments in economics that provide a better understanding of the characteristics of patent pools that warrant antitrust … respect to patent pools until the publication by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission of Antitrust …

In terms of the number of its patent applications, in 2012 China has emerged as the country with the largest IP office … studies have been devoted to the rise of domestic patenting in China, hardly any study has focused on Chinese patent filings … in foreign countries. This paper analyzes Chinese patenting abroad by using WIPO’s foreign-oriented patent family dataset …

Am 22./23. Mai 1990 fand in Madrid die erste Europäische Konferenz für Patent und Innovation (Patinnova) statt. Der … wettbewerbsbeschränkende Wirkung des Patents nicht zu Lasten des stimulierenden Innovationswettbewerbs auszudehnen. Das Europäische … durch einen möglichst umfassenden Patentschutz an. Es wurde die Forderung gestellt, diejenigen Elemente des Patent- und …

A vertically integrated firm, having acquired the intellectual property (IP) through innovation to become an input … puzzling and has led to numerous debates in antitrust. In this paper, I clarify the economic logic of refusal to deal, and … IP protection (as determined by IP laws) and restrictions on IP holders' conduct (as determined by antitrust laws) may …

From the perspective of antitrust authorities, the multiplication of patents embodied in technology standards is a … particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be …

property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic … creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …

We examine the intersection of patents and antitrust where a patent holder uses the monopoly power it possesses in the … adjacent market. The present scheme for awarding patents cannot judge when the issuance of a patent will lead to the … appropriate balance between innovation and efficiency. Where a patent holder’s invention uses an interface with adjacent products …