of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …

.S. "exhausts" all rights of the patentee to that item under the Patent Act. This decision goes against the Government's position … that a foreign sale authorized by the U.S. patentee should exhaust U.S. patent rights by default unless the patentee … subjects the firms that source in the South and sell in the North to the risk of a patent infringement lawsuit but allows the …

Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political …

The literature on patent buyouts has focused on single-economy settings, where buyouts are welfare improving relative … system of global patent protection paired with domestic price subsidies, and only intersovereign transfers can achieve a …

technology markets and increased rents for small inventors. Is this also true for today's NPEs? Or are they “patent trolls” who … opportunistically litigate over software patents with unpredictable boundaries? Using stock market event studies around patent lawsuit …

The emergence of nonpracticing entities (NPEs) — firms that purchase and hold patent rights but neither innovate … — often disparagingly called “patent trolls” — discourage productive firms from innovating for fear that they will then be … subject to a patent troll suit. Thus, NPEs may discourage innovation, resulting in a social loss …