This paper revisits the licensing of a non–drastic process innovation by an outside innovator to a Cournot oligopoly …. We propose a new mechanism that combines a restrictive license auction with royalty licensing. This mechanism is more … profitable than standard license auctions, auctioning royalty contracts, fixed–fee licensing, pure royalty licensing, and two …

Intellectual Property patent database, and the Licensing Activity Survey conducted by the University of Tokyo. In this paper, we … use a two-step model to estimate a firm's licensing propensities; the first step estimates the determinants of potential … licensors (willingness to license) and the second step identifies the factors of the actual licensing out of technology …

We consider a licensing mechanism for process innovations that awards a limited number of unrestricted licenses to …

We analyze a two-period licensing game in which a non-producer upstream patent holder licenses an innovation to either …

sufficiently high. Finally, we investigate a class of licensing agreements used to settle patent disputes between patent holders …

We consider a monopolistic screening model of patent licensing. There is one patentee and one licensee and the patentee … patentee except for some prior belief about it. In this scenario, we find the linear optimal licensing contract. …

In the literature of patent licensing, most of the studies are done where new technology is transferred from a cost … situation of patent licensing where the technology transfer takes place from an innovative firm, which is relatively inefficient … in terms of cost of production to its cost-efficient rival. We look for optimal licensing arrangements in this …