-on innovation building on Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased …We study the 1956 consent decree against the Bell System to investigate whether patents held by a dominant firm are … harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an …

doctrine supports Epstein’s argument for a conveyance default rule, detailing how early courts adopted for patents the same … limitation or restrictive covenants, a conveyance transfers the entire estate, i.e. fee simple. Since patents are property rights … – early courts often analogized patents to real property – a similar rule was adopted for patent conveyances. This historical …

Innovation plays a crucial role in defining competitive dynamics. Given this fact, one might expect ‘innovation’ to … to innovation in competition law cases. We end with proposals to remedy this situation …

We analyze the effects of the 1984 breakup of the Bell System on the rate, diversity, and direction of US innovation … diversity of telecommunications innovation increased. Total patenting by US inventors related to telecommunications increased by …

such as innovation. This question arises because competition authorities are intervening in horizontal mergers that are … found to give rise to a “significant impediment to effective innovation competition” (“SIEIC”) as a result of a reduction in … impede effective competition as regards innovation both in innovation spaces where the Parties' lines of research and early …

affecting innovation …

This paper discusses the effects of horizontal mergers on innovation. We rely on the existing academic literature and … our own research work to present the various positive and negative effects of mergers on innovation. Our analysis shows … that the overall impact of a merger on innovation may be either positive or negative and sheds light on the circumstances …

Innovation can either be viewed by the competition authorities as a parameter that should be protected from the … off against or abate the anticompetitive concerns raised by the competition authorities. Whenever the notion of innovation … causes competition-related concerns, enforcement authorities recognize and acknowledge the importance of innovation in an …

to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …We study the 1956 consent decree against the Bell System to investigate whether patents held by a dominant firm are …