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The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …
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The 5G mobile telecommunications standard is focusing increased attention on licensing of Standard Essential Patents …
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With ever increasing global integration, productivity improvements depend not only on in-house innovative efforts, but on those of international partners as well. This paper explores the impact of foreign R&D on productivity and technical efficiency of countries by considering three major...
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The twenty-first century “patent litigation explosion” is not unprecedented. In fact, the nineteenth century saw an even bigger surge of patent cases. During that era, the most prolific patent enforcers brought hundreds or even thousands of suits, dwarfing the efforts of today's leading...
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We assess whether restrictions on insider trading accelerate or slow technological innovation. Based on over 75,000 industry-country-year observations across 94 economies from 1976 to 2006, we find that enforcing insider-trading laws spurs innovation — as measured by patent intensity, scope,...
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litigious NPEs enforced many patents from product companies and public companies, the patents enforced by random companies were … more likely to come from larger and better funded companies. Additionally, the data implies that patents obtained by … considered, software patents are no longer a statistically significant predictor of invalidation.The layering of the system shows …
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about the validity of this measure. This paper links patents with objective measures of improvements in the quality of … influence citations. Patent attorneys cite early patents, which help establish the patentability of an invention; this practice … may inflate citation counts for early patents, particularly for inventions that have only recently become patentable …
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disputes over standard-essential patents that encourage continued investment in innovation and continued participation in …
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This paper develops a model of patent trolls to understand various litigation strategies employed by nonpracticing entities (NPE). We show that when a NPE faces multiple potential infringers who use related technologies, it can gain a credible threat to litigate even when it has no such...
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Competitors embroiled in a patent dispute always prefer to preserve and share monopoly profits, even if the patent is likely invalid. Antitrust has come to embrace a policy that requires horizontal settlements to be "proportional" in the sense that their anticompetitive effects are commensurate...
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