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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation

By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento
We present a model of sequential innovation in which an innovator uses several research inputs to invent a new good. These inputs, in turn, must be invented before they can be used by the final innovator. As a consequence, the degree of patent protection affects the... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Revenue; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research; Motivation and Incentives
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Llanes, Gaston, and Stefano Trento. "Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-148, June 2009.
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

individual's BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes," but the Court, wisely I believe, made thoughtful distinctions about what is and is not patentable, deciding that, "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent... View Details
Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health
  • June 2022
  • Article

The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond

By: Josh Lerner and Amit Seru
Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovation increasingly used in financial economics (and management research more broadly). Biases may result, however, from the interactions between the truncation of patents and citations and the changing... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Analytics and Data Science; Corporate Finance; Research
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Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru. "The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 6 (June 2022): 2667–2704.
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • News

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

  • June 2015 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Epistar and the Global LED Market

By: Willy C. Shih, Chen-Fu Chien and Hung-Kai Wang
It took BJ Lee many years to learn how to navigate the patent minefield that was the global LED industry. When his company was first spun off from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan, he thought the essence of a good IP strategy was to develop a... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property Management; Patenting; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property; Patents; Electronics Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; United States; Japan; Taiwan
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Shih, Willy C., Chen-Fu Chien, and Hung-Kai Wang. "Epistar and the Global LED Market." Harvard Business School Case 615-053, June 2015. (Revised January 2017.)
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond

By: Josh Lerner
Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative activity inside the firm and are increasingly used in corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and industry composition of innovative... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Analytics and Data Science; Corporate Finance; Research; Problems and Challenges
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Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru. "The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-042, November 2017.
  • 2007
  • Article

Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation

By: Atul Nerkar, Srikanth Paruchuri and Mukti Khaire
This paper proposes that patents are real options that allow holders of patents the right but not the obligation to sue others. We suggest that the likelihood of a patent's being litigated is positively associated with the value of the patent and the extent of... View Details
Keywords: Value; Corporate Disclosure; Lawsuits and Litigation; Patents; Rights; Business Processes
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Nerkar, Atul, Srikanth Paruchuri, and Mukti Khaire. "Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation." Real Options in Strategic Management. Advances in Strategic Management 24 (2007): 247–274.
  • June 2007
  • Article

What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

By: Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu
Economists have debated the extent to which strengthening patent protection spurs or detracts from technological innovation. This paper examines the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent and copyright protections are... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Patents; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
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Lerner, Josh, and Feng Zhu. "What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland." International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, no. 3 (June 2007): 511–529. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11168.)
  • 26 Mar 2020
  • News

Patent protection should take a backseat in a crisis

  • 16 Jan 2014
  • News

A Way To Mitigate Smartphone Patent Litigation

  • March 2011
  • Article

To Join or Not to Join: Examining Patent Pool Participation and Rent Sharing Rules

By: Josh Lerner and Anne Layne-Farrar
In recognition that participation in modern patent pools is voluntary, we present empirical evidence on participation rates and the factors that drive the decision to join a pool, including the profit sharing rules adopted by the pool's founders. In most participation... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Alliances; Vertical Integration; Standards
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Lerner, Josh, and Anne Layne-Farrar. "To Join or Not to Join: Examining Patent Pool Participation and Rent Sharing Rules." International Journal of Industrial Organization 29, no. 2 (March 2011): 294–303.

    The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry

    We investigate the effect of patent wars on firm strategy using data from the global smartphone market. In particular, we analyze how smartphone vendors not involved in patent litigation strategically respond to increased litigation risks in this industry. We find... View Details

    • 27 Aug 2013
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    The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

    Keywords: by Yongwook Paik & Feng Zhu; Legal Services

      What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

      Economists have debated the extent to which strengthening patent protection spurs or detracts from technological innovation. This paper examines the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent and copyright protections... View Details
      • 11 Dec 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond

      Keywords: by Josh Lerner and Amit Seru
      • 08 Dec 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Shihe Fu; Technology
      • 15 Apr 2015
      • News

      Biogen, Danish company in patent spat worth billions

      • summer 1994
      • Article

      The Importance of Patent Scope: An Empirical Analysis

      By: J. Lerner
      Keywords: Patents
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      Lerner, J. "The Importance of Patent Scope: An Empirical Analysis." RAND Journal of Economics 25, no. 2 (summer 1994): 319–333. (Earlier version distributed as Center for Science and International Affairs (Kennedy School of Government) Working Paper No. 91-04. Reprinted in The Economics of Intellectual Property, edited by Ruth Towse and Rudi Holzhauer. Vol. 145 in The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.)
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      What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos' Patents

      By: Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg
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      Gregg, Tricia, and Boris Groysberg. "What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos' Patents." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (February 6, 2020).
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      Patent Trolling Isn't Dead—It's Just Moving to Delaware

      By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
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      Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Patent Trolling Isn't Dead—It's Just Moving to Delaware." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 28, 2017).
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