inside the United States. But there is confusion regarding whether the presumption applies when a court calculates patent … damages. In WesternGeco L.L.C. v. Ion Geophysical Corp., the Federal Circuit held that patent holders who show infringement … under § 271(f) of the Patent Act cannot recover foreign lost profits. The court maintained that allowing recovery of such …

This study investigates the different effects of the 1982 reform of the U.S. patent judiciary systems on patent scope … in foreign and American firms. We first develop a model of patent scope decision-making under litigation uncertainty. We … hypothesize that although the 1982 patent reform increased the scope of patents on average, it unfavorably affected the patent …

parents from 36 countries globally and their patent holdings in 36 European countries, we provide insight into the … of royalties, R&D incentives, and transfer pricing rules help to explain the patent-location choices of multinationals. …

This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …