Patents : prompting or restricting innovation? / Marc Baudry and Béatrice Dumont.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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""Cover""; ""Half-Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Purpose of Patents""; ""1.1. Introduction""; ""1.2. Patents as an incentive mechanism""; ""1.2.1. The key question of appropriability of returns for innovation""; ""1.2.2. Patents as a solution for the lack of appropriability""; ""1.2.3. Patents and their design""; ""1.2.4. Are patents a property right like any other?""; ""1.3. Patents as intangible assets""; ""1.3.1. From factory to fabless: the growing role of the obligation to disclose the content of patents""

""1.3.2. The emergence of patents as intangible assets""""1.3.3. The delicate question of assessing patents as intangible assets""; ""1.3.4. Patents as funding leverage""; ""1.3.5. The commoditization of patents""; ""1.4. Case study: Intellectual Ventures Inc.""; ""2. The Imprimatur of Patent Offices in the Face of Reforms""; ""2.1. Introduction""; ""2.2. The exponential demography of patents""; ""2.3. The impact of regulatory factors and legal decisions in the United States""; ""2.3.1. Patent continuations or â#x80;#x9C;evergreeningâ#x80;#x9D;""; ""2.3.2. Reform attempts""

""2.4. Regulatory developments in Europe""""2.4.1. The unitary patent and the unified court: the final stage of a European patent system?""; ""2.4.2. The supposed economic advantages of the unitary system""; ""2.4.3. From intention to reality""; ""3. The Judiciarization of Patents""; ""3.1. Introduction""; ""3.2. Should patent trolls be tracked down?""; ""3.2.1. A class of heterogeneous actors""; ""3.2.2. The business model of litigation PAEs""; ""3.2.3. What is the scale of this phenomenon?""; ""3.2.4. The consequences for innovation""

""3.2.5. A longstanding and potentially beneficial role""""3.2.6. Proposals for reforms""; ""3.3. Standards and patents: a necessary but tense coexistence""; ""3.3.1. FRAND licenses as safeguards for essential patents""; ""3.3.2. The hold-up theory faced with the facts""; ""3.3.3. The availability of injunctions""; ""3.3.4. Patent ambushes""; ""3.3.5. Royalty-stacking""; ""3.3.6. â#x80;#x9C;Best FRAND foreverâ#x80;#x9D; or the delicate question of royalty amounts""; ""3.4. Case study: sovereign patent funds""; ""4. A New Place under the Sun for Patents?""; ""4.1. Introduction""

""4.2. The patent as one innovation policy instrument among many""""4.2.1. Innovation awards, or how to rehabilitate an old approach""; ""4.2.2. Could innovation awards replace patents?""; ""4.2.3. Complementarity with support for R&D efforts""; ""4.2.4. An example of complementarity between instruments: low-carbon innovation""; ""4.3. Patents in support of open innovation strategies""; ""4.3.1. Patent pools as a premise for open innovation""; ""4.3.2. From R&D cooperation to open innovation""; ""4.3.3. Why is open innovation so â#x80;#x9C;patent-compatible?â#x80;#x9D;""

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