This paper analyzes the relationship between technology licensing and the effectiveness of patent protection. Using the … the patenting and licensing decisions are jointly determined. We find that increases in the effectiveness of patent … unimportant. In contrast, for firms better positioned to bring new technologies to market, increases in patent effectiveness …

Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat … is needed for successful utilization of this policy. -- R&D collaboration ; intellectual property ; uncertainty ; patents …

Patent pendencies create uncertainty in research and development (R&D) collaboration agreements, resulting in a threat …

This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …

Many high technology goods are based on standards that require access to several patents that are owned by different IP … rates and reduce output as compared to non-integration. Horizontal integration of IP holders (or a patent pool) solves the …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

Patents are legal delinquents. A growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates that patents repeatedly fail to … misbehavior, we can catch a glimpse of the social roles patents play when no one is watching. Drawing on insights from the … sociology of markets, I argue that patents are surreptitiously performing functions familiar from the grocery store, the …

-2013 (OECD-EUIPO, 2016) with financial information and patent data from 2009 to 2015. The result is a firm-level database that … of patents. However, seizures enacted in defence of patents are those that have the highest mean value. The analysis of … profitability (return on total assets), prior to the window of observation. Target companies also have on average larger patent …