This paper provides an analysis of the impact of patent fees on the demand for patents. It presents a dataset of fees … since 1980 at the European (EPO), the U.S. and the Japanese patent offices. Descriptive statistics show that fees have … dynamic panel data models suggests that the price elasticity of demand for patents is about -0.30. These results suggest that …

Competitors embroiled in a patent dispute always prefer to preserve and share monopoly profits, even if the patent is … that their anticompetitive effects are commensurate with the expected result of counterfactual patent litigation, which …

When rivals settle a patent dispute, they prefer to preserve the full monopoly profit, even if the patent is very … from litigation. This avoids the need to estimate the odds of counterfactual patent litigation.This is a previous draft …

addresses from a patent perspective some representative concerns relating to patents that appear to be prevalent in the … patent law operates generally with an emphasis on how it may impact the environment in particular. In so doing, the essay … environmental literature and shows how the patent system may provide substantial benefit for those favoring the environment …

This Article explores the practical consequences of an important shift that has recently taken place in patent theory …. Although it was long agreed that the purpose of granting patents is to reward invention, today many scholars instead attempt to … justify the patent system based on its role in facilitating information exchange and enabling technical coordination among …

If a litigated patent has previously been licensed to a third party, the courts generally adopt the terms of the prior … trivialized (and generally false) presumption that a patent license is like a commodity, with the patentee charging a common price … future licensing negotiations – whenever they license their patents, whether or not today’s agreement will be a good proxy …

This paper considers the prospect of a government patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth. To this end, the … shows that in this set-up, patent buyout by the government can lead to higher level of welfare without lowering an economy …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent … functioning of the contemporary patent system. We find that patenting firms are being less confronted with imitation. The effect …