creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …

By using the PatVal-EU dataset we find that the most important determinant of patent licensing is firm size. Patent …

the primary patent covering an innovation and whether the innovating firm's licenses its innovation or raises external … finance at certain stages of the firm/product's development, and thereby enable the firm to delay licensing, obtaining patent … effects from the empirical analysis, the theory suggests that patent filing may act as a signal to financial investors that …

powerful strategic tool: the offers that he makes to the patent holder will affect the royalty rate that the Court may adopt as … availability of injunctions, the holder of a sufficiently weak patent will end up accepting below FRAND rates, in particular when … sufficiently strong patent will always end up in litigation by rejecting offers below FRAND. This arises in particular when the …