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Innovators seek to protect their intellectual assets by patenting them, at the same time trying to avoid any disclosure of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so that anybody "skilled in the art" is enabled to reproduce...
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-2000. Finally, we analyze how fragmentation affects total settlement delay, taking into account both reduction in duration per …
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The paradigmatic defendant in a patent lawsuit is a vertically integrated manufacturer. But much economic activity is conducted collaboratively by a supply chain of vertically disintegrated firms, and sometimes multiple firms are implicated in infringing activities, by making, selling, or using...
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A current refrain in patent policy discourse is that “overly-broad” patents of “dubious validity” retard innovation. We …
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Critics claim that patent screening is ineffective, granting low-quality patents that impose unnecessary social costs ….S. data, indicate that screening is highly imperfect, with almost half of all patents issued on inventions that do not require …
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invention (through patents) and the clinical trials data submitted for market approval (through data exclusivity). Patent …
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We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the patent universe in its technological and economic variety. We introduce a novel instrumental variable for patent invalidation that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant...
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We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the patent universe in its technological and economic variety. We introduce a novel instrumental variable for patent invalidation that exploits personnel scarcity in post-grant...
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The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in the US (Sidak, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a similarly lenient antitrust approach to Standard Setting Organizations’ (“SSOs”) rate setting policies...
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Standard essential patents have emerged as a major focus in both the public policy and academic arenas. The primary … implications standard essential patents and FRAND. The resulting framework surpasses the current approach by providing a basis for … standard essential patents were permitted to charge nonuniform royalty rates. At the same time, the optimal level of price …
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