parameters of patent licensing, including FRAND terms, for voluntary national standards; they allow discretion in determining the … necessity of suspending and revising voluntary national standards when patent licensing arrangements are not finalized; they … mandate patent licensing for compulsory national standards and also provide some transparency in national standards …

TRIPS agreement exceptions and/or to water down those exceptions. Altogether, they ramp up pressure on patent owners to give … that stealth licensing is a significant phenomenon that adversely impacts the social welfare functions of the patent system …. It risks undermining investment in technology, technology creation and the dissemination functions of the patent system …

The prevailing historical accounts of the formation of the US aircraft “patent pool” in 1917 assume the US government … necessarily intervened to alleviate a patent hold-up among private aircraft manufacturers. We show these accounts to be … no patent barriers in the market dominated by government demand. We show that the notion of the aircraft patent hold …

This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding …

other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide patent-like protection or further strengthen existing patent … drug companies: data exclusivity and patent linkage. As noted in earlier chapters (separately posted on SSRN), not all … competition, a thorough understanding of these requirements (as well as how they intersect with patent protection) is important to …

Patent pools allow competing firms to combine their patents and license them as a package to outside firms. Regulators … licensing strategies of patent pools. This paper takes advantage of a unique period of regulatory tolerance during the New Deal …

welfare, when the effects on public health are taken into account. In particular, we study how the new international patent … and Lai (2004) on optimal patent protection, this paper examines the externality execrated by the intellectual property …

Are regulators biased? I show that in-group biases affect patent grant decisions, using a novel hand …-collected biographical dataset on examiners at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. I find that examiners are more likely to grant …

to obtain patent rights in hopes that the patent incentive will foster commercialization, as well as generate revenues to … patent and licensing practices. Specific suggestions to modify the currently proposed regulations are provided …