I analyse how imitation and the efficiency of the court affect firms’ patent licensing and litigating. I consider … imperfect imitation and patent protection which is not absolute, and show that it is better for an imitator to buy a license …. However, a patent holder may benefit by taking no action against a highly imperfect imitation …

This paper examines the behaviour of two firms competing in a duopoly, where firms can influence demand through use of …. The results show that there exist threshold levels of advertising effectiveness at which duopoly behaviour bifurcates …