This paper analyzes how the optimal strength of patents on basic inventions is affected by financial constraints on the … and discourage the developer from exerting costly effort. Because of this, the distortions arising from patents on …

contributory infringement impact employee mobility out of firms holding patents. We anticipate that contributory infringement …

by Lerner's index of patent scope and effectiveness of patents in a line of business, decrease the hazard of termination …

Patents constitute our foremost policy tool for encouraging innovation. However, because each new technology provides … engineering critical to product development. This suggests a need for relatively narrow patents that are relatively easy to obtain … Circuit has set an extremely lax standard of disclosure software patents, resulting in patents scope unconstrained by …

The patent system makes organized markets in patents with transparent prices possible. Such prices are here …

The question of how prices on patents rights should be determined in impersonal exchanges is examined in a laboratory … market with impersonal exchange mechanisms and prices in the traditionally hierarchical and personal exchange of patents. A … mechanisms for organized market on patents with transparent prices. It also shows that intermediaries (traders) are critical to …

transparent prices of patents, dynamic gains from using a patent in multiple industries and the coordination of invention …, intermediary and innovation activities using a linear contract on patents (fixed fee plus royalty on revenues). A trader is … previous work on patents, trade and economics in that the focus is on the competitive pricing of the rights themselves, using …