The Smallest Salable Patent Pricing Unit (SSPPU) is a valuation method used by courts and some Standard Setting …

between the propensity to jointly own a patent and proximity in the product market; b) joint patents are associated with less …

We study how fragmentation of patent rights ('patent thickets') and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the … Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing …. We develop a model of patent litigation which predicts faster settlement agreements when patent rights are fragmented and …

available options to reduce disparities between large patent holders and firms from less-developed economies …

construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment … not declared a patent as essential to IEEE (the control group). Using a difference-in-differences approach, I provide … the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …

TRIPS agreement exceptions and/or to water down those exceptions. Altogether, they ramp up pressure on patent owners to give … that stealth licensing is a significant phenomenon that adversely impacts the social welfare functions of the patent system …. It risks undermining investment in technology, technology creation and the dissemination functions of the patent system …

commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological … innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …

The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed … system starts with an initial exclusive patent period that is much shorter, and then includes renewable periods of …

innovative performance also depends on the size of a firm's patent portfolio, which suggests an important strategic role for …