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Economics of Industry Paper

Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts

Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman

Cumulative innovation is central to economic growth. Do patent rights facilitate or impede such follow-on innovation? This paper studies the effect of removing patent protection through court invalidation on the subseque...Read more...

1 August 2015

Economics of Industry Paper

Patent Thickets and the Market for Innovation: Evidence from Settlement of Patent Disputes

Alberto Galasso and Mark Schankerman

We study how fragmentation of patent rights (‘patent thickets’) and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion...Read more...

August 2008

Economics of Industry Paper

Broad Cross-License Agreements and Persuasive Patent Litigation: Theory and Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Alberto Galasso

In many industries broad cross-license agreements are considered a useful method to obtain freedom to operate and to avoid patent litigation. In this paper I study the previously neglected dynamic trade-off between litig...Read more...

July 2007