Dequiedt, Vianney; Versaevel, Bruno - In: International Review of Law and Economics 36 (2013) C, pp. 59-69
Patent pools are cooperative agreements between two or more firms to license their related patents as a bundle. In a continuous-time model of multistage innovations, we characterize firms’ incentives to perform R&D when they anticipate the possibility of starting a pool of complementary...