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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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The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …
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By using the PatVal-EU dataset we find that the most important determinant of patent licensing is firm size. Patent breadth, value, protection, and other factors suggested by the literature also have an impact, but not as important. In addition, most of these factors affect the willingness to...
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ownership and the threat of a firm's patent applications being blocked by competitors' patents lead to increased patenting and … markets. -- Licensing ; blocking patents ; discrete and complex technologies ; technology competition …
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We describe the transfer of patents in late 19th- and early 20th- century Germany using a new and comprehensive … numbers and as a share of patents in force. In total, about eight percent of patents were transferred at least once during … their existence. Many transactions involved the transfer of patents with an above-average quality from individual inventors …
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We analyze the strategic protection decision of an innovator between a patent and secrecy in a setting with horizontally differentiated products. By introducing the patenting decision into the well known circular city model, the impact of the disclosure requirement linked to a patent application...
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In this paper we empirically investigate the theoretical results obtained in Zaby (2009). From the theoretical model, which introduces the decision to patent into a setting with horizontally differentiated products we deduce several hypotheses and test these empirically. We find that the...
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This paper empirically investigates a firm’s propensity to patent. It thereby builds on a theoretical model on a firms' patenting decision in a market with vertically differentiated products. We deduce and empirically test several hypotheses from the theoretical results regarding patenting and...
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We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property (IP) rights and the innovative performance of firms, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. We find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. For firms...
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This paper analyzes the effect of injunctions on royalty negotiations for standard essential patents. We develop a …
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