impact of patents on international technical standardization activities. In particular, it assesses the impact that patents … 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 …

At which stage in the production chain should patent licensing takes place? In this paper we show that under realistic … circumstances a patent holder would be better off by licensing downstream. This occurs when the licensing revenue can depend on the … when, instead, we assume that the downstream licensee is less informed about the validity of the patent. In most cases …

standardization body may be under an obligation under contract law or EU competition rules to grant a license to component suppliers …

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

's usefulness in estimating the share of true SEPs in firm patent portfolios for several mobile telecommunication standards. We find …

. Where licensing fails, follow-on innovation is blocked unless firms gain FTO through patent invalidation. Using large …-scale data from post-grant oppositions at the European Patent Office, we find that patent invalidation increases follow …