The Smallest Salable Patent Pricing Unit (SSPPU) is a valuation method used by courts and some Standard Setting …

We show that examiner-driven variation in patent rights leads to quantitatively large impacts on several patent … outcomes, including patent value, citations, and litigation. Notably, Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) overwhelmingly purchase … conventional companies, and that also have higher invalidity rates. PAEs leverage a specific friction in the patent system, which …

firms can use their patent stock as collateral and thereby relax possible debt financing restrictions. Using data from the … European Patent Office and balance sheet data of European companies, we find that larger and more valuable patent stocks lead …. Drawing on a legislative change in EU- law, allows us to establish a causal relationship between firms' patent portfolio and …

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 …

company:(1) has a patent needed to use a standard, (2) promises to license the patent on reasonable terms, and then (3) says … “patent holdup.”The concerns threatened by patent holdup have consistently been acknowledged by officials in Republican and … Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup. In contrast, they are neglected by the current Assistant Attorney General of the …

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 …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

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

the strengthening of the double patenting prohibition: preventing extending exclusive rights beyond the original patent … the inventor in two patents and (2) only applying the prohibition when the earlier patent did not satisfy the technical … meaning of “prior art” within §102 of the Patent Act. The rulings weakening the double patenting doctrine have disregarded …

The patent system is usually described in terms of opposites, like producers versus trolls or software versus pharma …-five years of patent litigation by highly litigious non-practicing entities and randomly selected plaintiffs explores each of … one thousand patent outcomes in more than two thousand cases leads to some surprising findings. For example, while the …