#Standards make compatibility mandatory. That changes patent #licensing.
👉 New on The #Patentist: Part II on SEPs/FRAND: hold-up vs hold-out, injunction leverage, royalty stacking, and why patent pools can help.
www.thepatentist.com/p/when-stand...
#Standards (Wi-Fi, 5G…) make products interoperable—but they can also create lock-in. That’s where #SEP & #FRAND come in: bargaining shifts from ex-ante competition to ex-post leverage.
👉 New on The Patentist www.thepatentist.com/p/when-stand...
#patents #innovation #thepatentist
🤓 New on The Patentist: Patent rights and cumulative innovation: Part II
When judges randomly invalidate patents, libraries open, or inventions are kept secret 🤐, what really happens to follow-on innovation? We dig into the empirical literature.
www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-rig...
🔎 The #nationaltreatment principle requires that foreign patentees receive the same legal treatment as domestic ones. But is that the case? 🤔
Not really.
Read what the evidence says on the new post on #ThePatentist: www.thepatentist.com/p/national-t...
📢 I am hiring!
🎓 Looking for a bright Ph.D. student in the economics of innovation. Anyone with a quantitative background is welcome to apply.
➡️ Details at www.epfl.ch/labs/stip/op...
🔎 Patent citations are everywhere in innovation research. But do they really trace how ideas spill over between inventors—or are we mistaking legal paperwork for knowledge flows? 🧐
New on #ThePatentist: www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-cit...
#patents #innovation #spillovers
🔎 Do more #patent citations mean better inventions?
A widely used metric in #innovation studies—but not always well understood. My new post on #ThePatentist reviews the evidence, from expert ratings and market prices to auction data and hybrid corn yields.
👉 www.thepatentist.com/p/patent-cit...
🗞️ International trade and intellectual property
The latest post on #ThePatentist discusses how #IPRs shape global commerce.
Spoiler: #trade is not only about #tariffs 😉
www.thepatentist.com/p/internatio...
#patent #innovation
🔍 The “Strength” of Patent Systems
The latest post on #ThePatentist dives into indices of the strength of #patent systems and discusses “twin patent” studies that reveal who's really setting the highest bar.
Spoiler: Stronger ≠ better.
open.substack.com/pub/thepaten...
📢 The next #REGIS seminar will occur this Friday, May 9, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET.
🤓 Jing Zhao (Mälardalen University 🇸🇪) will present the paper by Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, and Lindsey Raymond, titled "Generative AI at Work," published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025).