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Untangling the Economics of Patent Thickets (view source)
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@article{clarkson2005patent,
title={Patent Informatics For Patent Thicket Detection: A Network Analytic Approach For Measuring The Density Of Patent Space},
author={Clarkson, G.},
journal={Academy of Management, Honolulu},
year={2005},
abstract={When organizations in technology industries attempt to advance their innovative activities, they may encounter patent thickets, or dense webs of overlapping intellectual property rights owned by different companies that must be hacked through in order to commercialize new technology. Throughout the last 150 years, however, organizations have stumbled into a number of patent thickets and have occasionally responded by constructing patent pools or organizational structures where multiple firms collectively aggregate patent rights into a package for licensing, either among themselves or to any potential licensees irrespective of membership in the pool. Such collaboration among technologically competing firms, however, has often encountered difficulty from an antitrust standpoint, even if the formation of the pool is pro-competitive. Despite all that has been written lamenting the problem of patent thickets, the antitrust regime has never had an objective method of verifying the existence of a patent thicket in a given section of patent space. In response to the lack of such a methodology, this paper proposes a tool to facilitate objectively demonstrating the existence of patent thickets. This paper proposes a thicket identification methodology that uses a network analytic technique to determine if a patent pool is coincident with a patent thicket by comparing the density of the patent pool to the density of the surrounding patent space. This paper then applies the new methodology to two existing patent pools and verifies the existence of underlying patent thickets.... Patent thickets are not a new phenomenon, and when the total number of owners of the conflicting intellectual property rights is small, the response to the patent thicket problem has often been to cross-license (Grindley & Teece 1997; Teece 1998; Teece 2000). When more than two parties are involved, however, the transaction costs of cross-licensing between all of the parties can be prohibitive, and additional economic barriers exist such as hold-ups and double marginalization (Viscusi et al. 2000).},
discipline={Law, Econ},
research_type={Measures},
industry={},
thicket_stance={},
thicket_stance_extract={},
thicket_def={#A-T, #B-T, Quotes Shapiro, References Shapiro, References Heller/Eisenberg, Diversely-Held, Transaction Costs, Unspecified Blocking Mechanism, Overlapping Patents, Complementary Inputs, Hold-up, Cummulative Invention},
thicket_def_extract={When organizations in technology industries attempt to advance their innovative activities, they may encounter patent thickets, or dense webs of overlapping intellectual property rights owned by different companies that must be hacked through in order to commercialize new technology... Using Shapiro’s definition of a patent thicket as the starting point, two conditions must be satisfied in order for a collection of patents to be a patent thicket: the collection of patents must be both “dense” and “overlapping”(2000, pg. 120).},
tags={},
filename={[[Clarkson (2005) - Patent Informatics For Patent Thicket Detection]].pdf}
}
===Files===
*PTLRUp.bib - Another bibliography, additions or subtractions unknown
*Files in C:\Users\Ed\Dropbox\coauthoredprojects\Egan and Teece\ThicketWiki
**Particularly: CoreWithNewCoreForSorting-rev.txt
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