Will Generative AI Create a New Era of Search Competition?
Timothy Simcoe, TPRI Faculty Director, co-organized the survey question of the month and shared the survey results in the MIT Sloan Management Review, February 28, 2023.
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Does AI Help Reduce Wasteful Holiday Gifting?
Timothy Simcoe, quoted in MIT Sloan Management Review, November 22, 2022.
Should DEI Efforts Be Expected to Have a Financial Return?
Timothy Simcoe quoted in MIT Sloan Management Review, October 31, 2022.
Has Strategic Management Overlooked the Role of Purpose? What Experts Say
Timothy Simcoe quoted in MIT Sloan Review Management, February 28, 2022.
Representation Is Not Sufficient for Selecting Gender Diversity
Timothy Simcoe, et al.
New research showing that a supportive organizational culture, not just representation, is necessary for increasing diversity in an organization’s leadership.
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.
Should We Break Up Big Tech?
Timothy Simcoe quoted in BU Today, on keeping tech firms from getting too big.
Patent Policy and American Innovation after eBay: An Empirical Examination
Timothy Simcoe and Filippo Mezzanotti
After the Supreme Court ruled that courts should not automatically enter injunctions against patent infringers, some commentators feared that the decision would hinder innovation and growth in the U.S. More than ten years later, this paper examines the data to see whether those fears came true.
How Essential are Standard-Essential Patents?
Mark Lemley and Timothy Simcoe
This paper explores what happens when standard-essential patents (SEPs) go to court. The authors found that, contrary to their expectations, SEPs are more likely to be held valid than non-SEP patents, but they are significantly less likely to be infringed. In other words, SEPs, once in court, do not seem to be all that essential. One cause, the authors found, comes from the assertion of SEP patent rights by so-called patent trolls, which has implications in policy debates over both SEPs and patent trolls.