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Standard-setting, IPR policies and the incentives to innovate : evidence from the IEEE patent policy update
Bonani, Michaela - 2022
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 group), and I then collect a sample of firms active...
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Cooperating with competitors : patent pooling and choice of a new standard
Gallini, Nancy Theresa - In: International journal of industrial organization 36 (2014), pp. 4-21
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Cooperating with the competition : efficient patent pooling and the choice of a new standard
Gallini, Nancy Theresa - 2014
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Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy
Ganslandt, Mattias - 2007
Intellectual property rights and competition policy are intimately related. In this paper I survey the economic literature analyzing the interaction between intellectual property law and competition law and how the boundary between these two policies is drawn in practice. Recognizing that...
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Interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and its relevance to the implementation of the WTO Agreements
Wu, Xiaoping - 2017 - Manuscript date: 3 April 2017
The interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has been … and implementation of standards, and international trade, which are promoted by the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects …
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The application of competition policy vis-à-vis intellectual property rights : the evolution of thought underlying policy change
Anderson, Robert D.; Kovacic, William E. - 2017 - Manuscript date: 6 September 2017
This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis-à-vis intellectual property rights (IPRs) and associated anti-competitive practices in major jurisdictions over the past several decades. It focuses especially on the underlying process...
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The value of disclosing IPR to open standard setting organizations
Hussinger, Katrin; Schwiebacher, Franz - 2013
information and communication technologies. Open standards are developed non-discriminatorily and licensed to anybody at … reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Little is known about the value of IP contributions to open standards for technology …. The loss of exclusivity to IPR appears to be outweighed by the expected benefits from open standards. Patents appear to …
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Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting
Ganglmair, Bernhard - 2014
We present a model of industry standard setting with two-sided asymmetric information about the existence of intellectual property. We provide an equilibrium analysis of (a) firms' incentives to communicate ideas for improvements of an industry standard, and (b) firms' decisions to disclose the...
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Standards, Intellectual Property Rights, and Strategic Patenting : Evidence from the IETF
Wen, Wen - 2016
How does the development of formal standards for information and communication technologies shape the behavior of firms … of identifying important intellectual property rights (IPR) for standards users and reduces uncertainty related to … licensing terms. These changes can clarify the risks of IPR infringement for standards-related technologies and thus decrease …
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Calculative Patents
Burk, Dan L. - 2021
Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repeatedly fail to fulfill the responsibilities they have been assigned in fostering innovation. But I argue here that in their moments of misbehavior, we can catch a glimpse of the social roles patents...
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