Patents : Prompting or Restricting Innovation?

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 "evergreening" -- 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. "Best FRAND forever" 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&amp -- 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&amp -- D cooperation to open innovation -- 4.3.3. Why is open innovation so "patent-compatible?" -- 4.3.4. Patents at the center of intermediate innovation -- 4.4. Case study: "My patents are yours" - development in the Tesla case -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management -- EULA.

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