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Holdup and Licensing of Cumulative Innovations with Private Information

Bessen, James E. - 2014

with sub-optimal patent policy …

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Hold-Up and Patent Licensing of Cumulative Innovations with Private Information

Bessen, James E. - 2014

When innovation is cumulative, early patentees hold claims against later innovators. Then potential hold-up may cause prospective second stage innovators to forego investing in R&D. It is sometimes argued that ex ante licensing (before R&D) avoids hold-up. This paper explores ex ante licensing...

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Cass, Ronald A. - 2014

One prong of the antitrust litigation against Microsoft Corporation challenges the terms under which Microsoft has licensed its Windows operating system to computer manufacturers (OEMs). Plaintiffs complain that the license agreements' requirement that the first screen to appear when customers...

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Cass, Ronald A. - 1999

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The value of giving away secrets

Bar-Gill, Oren; Parchomovsky, Gideon - 2003

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The Value of Giving Away Secrets

Bar-Gill, Oren; Parchomovsky, Gideon - 2014

initial inventor at the ex post licensing stage. By opting for a narrower patent and unprotected publication, the initial … patent holder commits not to hold up follow-on inventors, thus promoting sequential innovation and generating lucrative … strands in patent law scholarship - the property rights perspective and the information revelation perspective. It also …

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