This paper discusses a method for evaluating the competitive effects of reverse payments in the wake of the Supreme Court's Opinion in Actavis. Specifically, we demonstrate a method for evaluating actual reverse payments against a “maximum-efficient-reverse-payment” criterion under both...

The choice of method for allocating royalties among intellectual property (quot;IPquot;) owning members of a standards setting organization (quot;SSOquot;) has substantive implications for investment in technological innovation, the allocation of resources between technology firms and consumer...

This article examines the premise that television broadcasters are able to exercise substantial market power deriving from governmental restrictions on entry. Using a new sample of actual transactions prices, we estimate a hedonic equation identifying product quality components of advertising...