. Standard-essential patents, the smartphone patent wars, and patent trolls thrust themselves onto the IP/antitrust scene. But …

these entities to monetize the patents they acquire. We develop a simple economic model to evaluate the effect of enhanced … patent monetization on innovation and on consumers. We then study the economic effects of several different categories of …

, Makan Delrahim, announced a crucial course-correction for policies involving standard-essential patents (SEPs) that a patent …

the growing trend of operating companies transferring patents to PAEs in order to increase their licensing revenues, the … on competition, a distinction must be drawn between “pure” PAEs, which acquire patents from a variety of sources and … generate revenues by asserting them, and “hybrid” PAEs, which acquire patents from operating companies and maintain a …

We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in …

When a technological standard is adopted, implementers must pay to license all “standard-essential” patents (SEPs … have received little attention in the FRAND literature, but they are an emerging concern for innovation and competition …

Patent licensing contracts commonly prohibit licensees from challenging the validity of the patents at the basis of the …