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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

Economics of Industry Paper

Stylised Fact of Patent Litigation: Value, Scope and Ownership

Jean O. Lanjouw and Mark Schankerman

This paper investigates the characteristics of litigated patents by combining for the first time information about patent case filings from the U.S. district courts and detailed data from the U.S. Patents and Trademark O...Read more...

January 1998

Economics of Industry Paper

Under Threat: Potential Competition, Litigation and the Private Value of Patent Protection

Jean O. Lanjouw

This paper investigates the effect of the threat and occurrence of patent litigation on the private value of patent protection. Potential challenges are introduced into a renewal model as a factor in patentee decisions a...Read more...

July 1992