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Standard essential patents: Who is really holding up (and when)?

Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen; Neven, Damien - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of injunctions on royalty negotiations for standard essential patents. We develop a model in which courts grant injunctions only when they have sufficient evidence that the prospective licensee is unwilling, in line with the way we understand Courts to operate in...

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The quality factor in patent systems

van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno - 2010

of patent offices in Europe (EPO), Japan (JPO) and the US (USPTO) shows that their operational designs differ … substantially: the EPO provides higher-quality and more expensive services than the USPTO, while the JPO is in an intermediate …

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Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy

Ganslandt, Mattias - 2007

Intellectual property rights and competition policy are intimately related. In this paper I survey the economic literature analyzing the interaction between intellectual property law and competition law and how the boundary between these two policies is drawn in practice. Recognizing that...

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The relationship among innovative output, productivity, and profitability: a test comparing USPTO and EPO data

Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - 2007

already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). For most … this purpose, we use a unique data set which collects balance sheet items and patent information from EPO and USPTO. After … only patents with the EPO, along with larger firm size, have a statistically significant relationship with productivity …

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Borders and distance in knowledge spillovers: dying over time or dying with age? ; evidence from patent citations

Li, Yao - 2009

This paper uses a gravity framework to investigate the effects of distance as well as subnational and national borders in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan level within the U.S. and the 38 largest patent-cited...

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Mobility of research workers and knowledge diffusion as evidenced in patent data: the case of liquid crystal display technology

Stolpe, Michael - 2001

This paper analyses the nature of knowledge spillovers from research and development (R&D) in the field of liquid crystal display technology by estimating the impact of inventors' changing organizational and collaborative affiliations on the probability of citations in US patents filed between...

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Financial signalling by innovative nascent entrepreneurs

Audretsch, David B.; Bönte, Werner; Mahagaonkar, Prashanth - 2009

External finance is central for nascent entrepreneurs, people in the process of starting new ventures. We argue that nascent entrepreneurs use patents and prototypes in order to signal their ability to appropriate the returns from their innovation as well as the project´s feasibility. Our...

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Pre-grant patent publication and cumulative innovation

Aoki, Reiko; Spiegel, Yossi - 2007

We examine the implications of pre-grant publication (PP) of patent applications in the context of a cumulative innovation model. We show that pre-grant publication of patents lead to fewer applications and fewer inventions, but it raises the probability that new technologies will reach the...

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Technology transfer offices and university patenting: a review

von Ledebur, Sidonia - 2008

This policy paper on science-industry technology transfer has four emphases: the rationale of recent changes in German science policy, the contribution of diverse transfer channels to economic development as well as the role of IPR in that context, the differences in the institutional framework...

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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation

Vopel, Katrin; Scherer, Frederic M.; Narin, Francis; … - 1997

Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....

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