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 …

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

license can generate more revenue. Patent rights and trade secret rights are somewhat conflicting IP rights. Combined licenses … issued for using both patent rights and trade secret rights can evoke issues under Antitrust Laws. Composite license to use … patent and trade secret rights has economic effects on licensor and licensee both. This paper tries to analyse such effects …

decision making. SEP holders and implementers create negotiated FRAND commitments through patent license agreements. Courts … reduce standardization, impede innovation, and constrain market negotiation of patent license agreements. The article … introduces the concept of the “patent run-around” to describe potential effects of “licensing to all” regulations. The article …

This paper analyzes how injunctions relate to patent hold-up problems. To this end, we present a simple model of … licensing negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm in the shadow of litigation. More specifically, we consider … the situation in which an injunction is granted as a matter of course if a patent is found valid and infringed upon in …

rates and reduce output as compared to non-integration. Horizontal integration of IP holders (or a patent pool) solves the …