Digital (Killer?) Acquisitions
By Florian Ederer, Regina Seibel, and Timothy Simcoe
This article investigates how acquisitions of startups by major technology companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others affect innovation.
Tag: Patents
Do Patent Assets have a Second Life When Startups Fail? An Analysis of the Redeployment Likelihood and Mode of Transfer
By Carlos J. Serrano and Rosemarie H. Ziedonis
Venture capital-backed startups are fertile sources of patented inventions, yet they often go out of business. Ewens & Farre-Mensa (2022) report that up to 40 percent of startups that received VC financing between 1992 and 2009 shut down and were terminated at a loss.
Patent thickets, stock returns, and conditional CAPM
By Po-Hsuan Hsu, Hsiao-Hui Lee, and Tong Zhou
In order to accelerate knowledge accumulation and technical progress, governments introduced patent systems to encourage inventors to share their ideas, discoveries, and inventions with the public.
Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation
By Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Ingo E. Isphording, Thu-Van Nguyen, Felix Poege, Sebastian Siegloch
Advances in pharmaceuticals and vaccines, robotics and artificial intelligence dominate newspaper headlines.
The role of TRIPS in encouraging pharmaceutical technological diffusion in developing countries
Iain Cockburn, Tim Wilsdon, Michele Pistollato, Rajini Jayasuriya, and Thomas Watson
The 1995 TRIPS Agreement between member states of the World Trade Organization (WTO) defines minimum standards of intellectual property (IP) protection and enforcement.
Patents and Price Fixing by Serial Colluders
William E. Kovacic, Robert C. Marshall, and Michael J. Meurer
New research arguing for new policies to address serial collusion in various industries, including guidance to antitrust enforcers about how to better understand and combat serial collusion facilitated by patents.
Patent System Often Stifles the Innovation It Was Designed to Encourage
Michael Meurer and Janet Freilich in The Conversation offering suggestions for improving the patent system.
Crisis Innovation
Tania Babina, Asaf Bernstein, and Filippo Mezzanotti
New research on the effect of the Great Depression on patenting and the role of financial crises as both destructive and creative forces for innovation.
Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents? Strategic Use of Continuations at the USPTO
Cesare Righi and Timothy Simcoe
New research analyzing the effect of standard essential patents (SEPs) on patent continuations, showing opportunistic behavior in the filing of continuations after the disclosure of SEPs.
Tying and Exclusion in FRAND Licensing: Evaluating Qualcomm
Erik Hovenkamp and Timothy Simcoe
New analysis of the Qualcomm decision in terms of how Qualcomm’s commitments to license its standard-essential patents on “fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory” (FRAND) terms bear on the antitrust analysis and how FRAND might have been used to better justify finding an antitrust duty-to-deal with competitors.