A large literature asserts that standard essential patents (SEPs) allow their owners to “hold up” innovation by … innovation in SEP-reliant industries. We find no empirical support for either prediction. Indeed, SEP-reliant industries have the …

A large literature asserts that standard essential patents (SEPs) allow their owners to "hold up" innovation by … innovation in SEP-reliant industries. We find no empirical support for either prediction. Indeed, SEP-reliant industries have the …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least … partially meant to stimulate patents and "indigenous innovation." However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … innovation …

Alice v. CLS Bank (“Alice”) set new software and business method patent eligibility guidelines for patent examiners and … patent assertion entities (PAEs), but PAEs continue to purchase pre-Alice software patents at similar rates. Litigation rates …-affected industries. We provide evidence that startups in these industries were not reliant on favorable patent rights for funding even …

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 US case Akamai Technologies Inc v Limelight Networks Inc brought the patent world's attention to the issue of if … ‘divided performance' issue in the Australian context, finding that, contrary to an earlier article, no patent infringement …, thereby, generate certainty for the myriad stakeholders who use the patent system …

be considerable confusion about the implications of the decision. Some authors, concerned over patent holdup and …-manufacturing patent owners. Using an error cost framework, we examine the theory and evidence behind patent holdup concerns as they relate …, where patent holders with no designs of patent holdup are nonetheless denied injunctive relief. Instead of advocating …

model of the patent system, liability rules outperformed property rules in generating innovation, productivity, and social … property rules, using the patent system as an experimental model. Expressed in the nomenclature of Calabresi and Melamed, the … United States’ patent law has recently witnessed a shift away from property rules and towards liability rules. This Article …