” supports the view that patent pooling are pro-competitve …

paper empirically examines one such institution: the patent pool. The analysis highlights five findings consistent with the … overlapping patent holdings; and (e) during the most recent era, when an intense awareness of antitrust concerns precluded many … competition-harming patent pools, more important patents were selected for pools and patents selected for pools were subsequently …

paper empirically examines one such institution: the patent pool. The analysis highlights five findings consistent with the … overlapping patent holdings; and (e) during the most recent era, when an intense awareness of antitrust concerns precluded many … competition-harming patent pools, more important patents were selected for pools and patents selected for pools were subsequently …

A patent "pool" is an arrangement under which patent holders in a common technology commit their patents to a single … traditional justification for patent pools is that they facilitate improved products by uniting complements Sharing of … development and transfer when determining patents' validity or identifying their boundaries is costly. In this sense, patent pools …

Patent pools allow competing firms to combine their patents and license them as a package to outside firms. Regulators … licensing strategies of patent pools. This paper takes advantage of a unique period of regulatory tolerance during the New Deal …