Method-of-Use Patents, Appropriability, and Antitrust Policy

Roger Blair and Anita N. Walsh ()
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Anita N. Walsh: University of Florida

Review of Industrial Organization, 2020, vol. 56, issue 4, No 6, 666 pages

Abstract: Abstract When an inventor discovers a novel, useful, and non-obvious way to use a patent or unpatented product, the Patent Office may issue a method-of-use patent. Because the method-of-use is information, it suffers from the same appropriability and excludability problems that all information bears. This paper examines vertical integration, patent licensing, and bundled pricing as business strategies for extracting the surplus. It also evaluates potential antitrust challenges to bundled pricing.

Keywords: Intellectual property; Method-of-use patents; Patent licensing; Bundled pricing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-020-09753-3

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