scientific theory. Patents on research tools can prevent widespread access to these technologies and thus inhibit downstream … "theorize around" dominant paradigms, thereby engaging in the alternative theory generation that drives profound scientific … patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …

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 …, this essay introduces the organizing themes of the volume. Innovation is critical to economic growth. While it is well …

climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent … innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to …

The first sale or patent exhaustion doctrine reflects the limited nature of patents. In Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG … Electronics, Inc., the Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle that the authorized sale of a patented item exhausts the patent as … to that item. However, in the context of self-replicating technology, it is unclear how the patent exhaustion/first sale …

a patented item exhausts patent protection as to that particular item. However, it is unclear how the patent exhaustion … rather than patent law should govern the patent holder’s rights in an object embodying self-replicating technology after an …

direct and/or indirect preferences for patent- and/or royalty-free ‘SMART’ technologies embedded in ‘open’ national … at the expense of the innovation and investment communities of OECD member nations, inasmuch as they have raised foreign …

IP-for-IP is profitable in industries where firms differ in their capabilities to commercialize IP. Patent …

independent of the patent grant date, and productive efficiency considerations will result in licensing as early as possible after … actual grant of a patent may facilitate trade in the market for ideas by establishing the scope of IP rights. Employing a … dataset which combines information about the timing of patent grants and cooperative licensing, we find that pre …

competitive firms in the final product market, each with one essential patent necessary for production. The equilibrium price …