Ties that Bind: Policies to Promote (Good) Patent Pools

Richard Gilbert

Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series from Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Hundreds of patents cover products in many high technology fields such as semiconductors, information technology, and biotechnology. Firms that make, sell, or use products in these fields often have to negotiate patent rights with many intellectual property owners. The time and effort required to assemble these rights can interfere with the adoption and diffusion of new technologies and the cumulative payments to rights holders for use of their intellectual property can weigh heavily on technology costs.

Keywords: patents; technology; patent rights; intellectual property; patent thicket; Law; Social and Behavioral Sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11-01
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