's usefulness in estimating the share of true SEPs in firm patent portfolios for several mobile telecommunication standards. We find …

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 …

invention (through patents) and the clinical trials data submitted for market approval (through data exclusivity). Patent … market exclusivity on the likelihood of drug commercialization. The effect is largely driven by patent invalidations early in …

disclosure, as are those with lower quality patents. We empirically examine patent disclosures made to seven large SSOs, and find …

In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by … numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences. As a result, firms risk their patent applications to be …

The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in … the antitrust risk for all forms of coordination, including arrangements of the type found in the IEEE-SA updated patent …

the standard setting process rather than the innovation itself, standard setting organizations (SSOs) require …

To study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening, we develop an integrative framework incorporating … four main policy instruments: patent office examination, pre- and post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show …. Simulations of the model, calibrated on U.S. patent and litigation data, indicate that patenting is socially excessive and the …

controversial changes to its patent policy. The changes include a recommended method of calculation of FRAND royalty rates, and a … request to members holding a standard essential patent (SEP) to forego their right to seek an injunction except under limited … discussing the role of patent policies of Standard-Setting Organizations (SSO) and the rules and principles applicable to the …

-stacking effect would hurt efficiency and downstream competition. In this paper we show that when we consider patent litigation and … Cournot effect. We show that the lower the total royalty that a downstream producer pays, the lower the royalty that patent … in the royalty that unconstrained large patent holders will charge that may overturn some of the standard predictions in …