The objective of this paper is to show the necessity of reviving the debate on the economic justifications for patent … patent protection, and on the other hand, we believe that major changes to the patent law should be considered. Critical … review of the discussion on patents shows that the weaknesses of many arguments for patent protection, as well as the …

the standard-setting process and standard adoption. We propose the average total costs per patent family as an economic … increasing ownership concentration of SEP families is negatively associated with firms' average total costs per patent family …, suggesting that decreasing competition around SEP families might decrease firms' investments per patent family. We conclude that …

the new product and the patent holder obtains the entire value of product innovation. Second, we show that royalty …The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we study the patent hold-up problem in game-theoretic framework. We show … that in subgame perfect equilibrium of the patent hold-up game the innovating manufacturer exerts reduced effort to develop …

.S. rms we show that venture capital investment in start-ups generates signi cant spillovers on the patent quantity and …