construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment … not declared a patent as essential to IEEE (the control group). Using a difference-in-differences approach, I provide … the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …

-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that …

jurisdictions, comprising: (i) the treatment of licensing practices, including refusals to license; (ii) anti-competitive patent … settlements; (iii) issues concerning standard-essential patents (SEPs); (iv) the conduct of patent assertion entities (PAEs); and …

find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing …. It also turns out that the perceived effectiveness of a patent depends on a firm's size, theinnovation type and … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …

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 …

strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data … strategy reveals there was an almost universal drop in patent social value in the second half of the 1990s, signaling a shift … companies increasing their focus on patent value relative to companies from other industries. On average, aerospace and software …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …

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 …