competitors. The paper examines the capacity for decentralised patent-based incentive mechanisms to result in socially optimal … incompatibility between the dynamics of the patent system and the dynamics of the resistance problem under both types of evolution …. Under scale-dependent evolution, the externalities within a patent-based system indicate that decentralised mechanisms will …

the information technology sector where patent hold-up is possible. We first consider the American system, where each … British system proves to be more effective in counteracting hold-up if the patent at issue is relatively weak, while for … relatively strong patent the opposite is true. Under contingency-fee arrangements, where lawyer fees are determined by the …

competitors. The paper examines the capacity for decentralised patent-based incentive mechanisms to result in socially optimal … incompatibility between the dynamics of the patent system and the dynamics of the resistance problem under both types of evolution …. Under scale-dependent evolution, the externalities within a patent-based system indicate that decentralised mechanisms will …

Under well-settled patent law, the decision regarding whether to grant or deny a patent turns on technical fact …-finding. Recommendations made in recent patent system reform reports issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the National Academy of … Sciences (NAS) could have a substantial impact on which patent institution has power over fact-finding. The FTC's approach to …