importance for innovation, technology transfer and economic growth. As such, this important normative material also provides a … jurisdictions, comprising: (i) the treatment of licensing practices, including refusals to license; (ii) anti-competitive patent … settlements; (iii) issues concerning standard-essential patents (SEPs); (iv) the conduct of patent assertion entities (PAEs); and …

Financing constraints have been discussed as a major obstacle to innovation. Small and mediumsized enterprises and … provide external finance to innovative firms based on the firms' patent portfolios. Patents have been used as collateral or as … assets assembled in patent funds seeking to commercialize the patent rights. Patent auctions are indicative of a nascent …

the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …In this paper, I empirically study the effect of IEEE’s IPR policy change in 2015 on standard related innovation. I … construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment …