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their quest into the judicial treatment of patents in different industry sectors. They present an in-depth commentary on …
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Competition authorities in foreign jurisdictions have recently adopted or are considering guidelines on applying competition law to intellectual property rights (IPR). A common concern that certain exercises of IPR can restrict competition underlies IPR provisions that would enable competition...
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We investigate whether patents that are jointly held by legally independent companies help sustain product …-market collusion. We use a simple model of repeated interactions to show that joint patents can serve collusive purposes. Our model … generates two testable predictions: when joint patents are held for collusive purposes, a) there is a positive relationship …
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As an economist, I find the current state of the law regarding damages for patent infringement – most particularly that relating to apportionment – frustrating at best and woefully incomplete at worst. Namely, damages case law for utility patent infringement provides two very different, but...
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) receives more prior art submissions by patent applicants than its patent examiners have the capacity to process. Although applicant prior art submissions are highly likely to contain references material to prosecution, evidence suggests that...
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inconsistent with the historical facts. We show that despite the existence of basic aircraft patents, aircraft manufacturers faced … basic aircraft patents. Government officials used the threat of condemnation to impose a depressed royalty structure on … aircraft patents and induce key patent owners to enter a cross-licensing patent pool. We show that this cross …
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Since the mapping of the human genome and the technical innovations in the field of biotechnology, patent law has gone through great controversies. Protection is required for an investor to make an investment but how broad should the given protection be? Whether the invention is a micro-organism...
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This study investigates if firms' involvement in patent litigation as alleged infringers hinders their innovation. I develop a simple model that predicts a decrease in innovation following patent litigation. I investigate the model's implications in a sample of publicly listed US firms, using a...
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presented a patent system that is broken but undergoing repair; a system beset by poor quality patents and abused by patent …
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&D contract to generate patents. We provide suggestive evidence that backlogged contracting officers are unable to devote enough …
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