A work of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the ways that law and
technology interact. Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier …

This chapter provides a comprehensive survey of the burgeoning literature on the law and
economics of intellectual property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of …

Are the attitudes and beliefs of chief executive officers (CEOs) linked to their firms' innovative
performance? This paper uses a measure of overconfidence, based on CEO stock-option …

ABSTRACT'Ihe traditional justification for intellectual property (IP) rights has been utilitarian.
We grant exclusive rights because we think the world will be a better place as a result. But …

The patent system is designed with a paradigm invention in mind-a new device or machine
covered by a single patent. Historically, this paradigm was a fairly accurate portrayal of the …

Economists often assume that a patent gives its owner a well-defined legal right to exclude
others from practicing the invention described in the patent. In practice, however, the rights …

Patent trolls-patent owners whose primary business is collecting money from others that
allegedly infringe their patents-are on everyone's mind. Complaints that trolls are perverting …

This report was commissioned as a study into the strategic use of patents. In the course of its
case investigations and legislative reviews the European Commission became aware of …

ABSTRACT A Standard Setting Organization (" SSO") typically requires its members to
license any standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (" …

Patent law is crucial to encourage technological innovation. But as the patent system
currently stands, diverse industries from pharmaceuticals to software to semiconductors are …