Tag: Timothy Simcoe

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.

Upstream, Downstream: Diffusion and Impact of the Universal Product Code

Emek Basker and Timothy Simcoe

This paper presents an in-depth quantitative analysis of the diffusion and impacts of the Universal Product Code (UPC). The authors find evidence of two-sided network effects in the diffusion process, and that employment and trademark registrations increase following UPC adoption by manufacturers or wholesalers. The findings suggest that barcodes, scanning, and related technologies helped stimulate variety-enhancing product innovation and encourage the growth of international retail supply chains.