framework in which every innovation builds on previous inventions the standard argument for granting patent protection is no …

diminish the value of patent-related commitments made by participants. In these cases, the intervention of public law …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

Firms can make use of the discretionary aspect of the location of patent ownership to avoid taxation and maximise their … profits. This paper investigates patent transfers with regard to patent box regimes, and study how firms' incentives to … patent transfers, I find that patent box countries significantly attract more patent relocations, and that incoming flows …

Until recently, successful patent plaintiffs would almost always be awarded injunctions against future infringement …. Thanks to a recent change in remedies jurisprudence, however, patent plaintiffs today are often denied injunctions and … determined by the court. As a result, certain types of patent cases should today slow down. That is, courts should extend …

How do non-practicing entities (“Patent Trolls”) impact innovation and technological progress? We employ unprecedented … access to NPE-derived patent and financial data and a novel model to answer this question. We find that NPEs tend to acquire …

This paper analyzes how injunctions relate to patent hold-up problems. To this end, we present a simple model of … licensing negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm in the shadow of litigation. More specifically, we consider … the situation in which an injunction is granted as a matter of course if a patent is found valid and infringed upon in …

patent rights have been strengthened or when standards-contributing firms hold a larger proportion of related patents …