the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …In this paper, I empirically study the effect of IEEE’s IPR policy change in 2015 on standard related innovation. I … construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment …

standards-development organization (SDO) by the holder of a patent essential to a standard relating to the manufacture of the … obligation to disclose SEPs. Following the SEP holder's assertion of the undisclosed patent against a competing generic … patent. The alleged infringer also brought antitrust claims against the SEP holder, alleging monopolization in violation of …

” and “patent thickets”. There is a risk that the discussion of standardization, in academic and policy circles, becomes …While the traditional literature and the policy statements concerning standardization as such emphasize the benefits of … standardization, the intellectual property and competition law literature and policymaking has been more critical of standardization …

discourages entry and reduces innovation incentives, while horizontal integration always benefits from entry and innovation …

that may need the technologies to develop new products and services? We argue that standardization lowers the search costs … patent rights have been strengthened or when standards-contributing firms hold a larger proportion of related patents …