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 …

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 …

climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent … innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

the current European patent system, one of the most advanced, complex, and contested economic systems in Europe. The … conclusions elaborate on some normative implications regarding the weaknesses of the European patent system, and underline the …