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 …

The role of the patent system in promoting pharmaceutical innovation is widely seen as a tremendous success story. This … view overlooks a serious shortcoming in the drug patent system: the standards by which drugs are deemed unpatentable under … patent to motivate their development. If the idea for a drug is not novel or is obvious, perhaps because it was disclosed in …

the Australian parliament in 2011. To "raise" the height of the inventiveness requirement for the second-tier patent …

manufacturers and users of standardized products, and the terms on which patent holders may be required to license the use of those … standards and standards-setting organizations, with a focus on empirical studies and contemporary patent and patent licensing …

family size, and the patent grant likelihood. The final four chapters of the study focus on a set of specific topics: (1 …) ‘blanket disclosures’, (2) essential patent transfer, (3) patent pools, and (4) and litigation …

While numerous researchers can access current large patent databases, the presence of numerous non-standard applicant … names presents a huge obstacle to their effective use. This paper explains the characteristics of Japanese patent applicant … names and offers a potential solution to current difficulties in the form of a standardized Japanese patent applicant name …

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 …