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How Innovative Are Innovations? A Multidimensional, Survey-Based Approach
Innovation can be difficult to measure, and some major technical advances have less impact on social welfare than expected. Surveys of innovation should consider five key factors in assessing the importance of an innovation.
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Wesley Cohen, John P. Walsh, You-Na Lee |
2021 |
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Antitrust Policy Toward Patent Licensing: Why Negotiation Matters
Some are concerned that patents for complex innovations give rise to problems such as royalty stacking or patent thickets. However, empirical data shows that patent pools and negotiation of patent licenses tend to eliminate these concerns.
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Daniel Spulber |
2021 |
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Reforming the Patent System
Three tailored patent reforms would improve the patent system without requiring more evidence as to whether stronger patent protection promotes innovation generally.
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Heidi Williams, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette |
2020 |
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Licensing Standard Essential Patents with FRAND Commitments: Preparing for 5G Mobile Telecommunications
As 5G mobile telecommunication technologies develop, some have proposed that courts or administrative agencies should regulate licensing of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs).
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Daniel Spulber |
2020 |
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Finding Reasonable Royalty Damages: A Contract Approach to Patent Infringement
Courts differ as to how to calculate damages for patent infringement. The best approach would be for courts to construct an “informed contract” between the parties to the dispute.
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Daniel Spulber |
2019 |
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A Toolkit of Policies to Promote Innovation
Innovation is an important route to continued productivity growth in the United States. Tax credits for research and development (R&D) are among the best ways to spur innovation. Evidence as to whether the patent system promotes innovation is inconclusive.
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Heidi Williams, John Van Reenen, Nicholas Bloom |
2019 |
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Increasing Diversity in Innovation by Tracking Women, Minority, and Startups: Innovators that Patent and Supporting Experimentation in Inclusive Innovation
The Study of Underrepresented Classes Chasing Engineering and Science Success (SUCCESS) Act of 2018 requires the United States Patent Office (USPTO) to better support women, minorities, and veterans in innovation.
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Colleen Chien |
2019 |
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The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy
Decision-making algorithms are increasingly used in administrative law, as well as in civil and criminal justice, raising due process concerns. Source code is protected from scrutiny by trade secret law.
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Sonia Katyal |
2019 |
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Prize and Reward Alternatives to Intellectual Property
Some scholars have proposed prize or reward systems to encourage inventors and creators, as an alternative to the current intellectual property system. Designing prize and reward systems is challenging.
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Michael B. Abramowicz |
2019 |
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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome
Intellectual property (IP) is intended to encourage innovation. For two years, Celera held exclusive IP rights to data about some human genes. During this time, other firms reduced research and development (R&D) related to these genes from 20-30%. These effects persisted for years after.
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Heidi Williams |
2019 |