How Strong Are Weak Patents
By Joseph Farrell, Carl Shapiro. 2008
268 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation
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Citations in the corpus
- Patent Value and Citations: Creative Destruction or Strategic Disruption? (2013, background): “The intuition for productive innovation follows the traditional economic view that patents are offered as a (11)Relatedly, Farrell and Shapiro (2008) emphasize the ability of patent holders, even of weak or less productive patents, to hold up firms through the threat of infringement. Arora, Ceccagno”
- Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses (2021, background): “…written by the EFF as well as articles that cite EFF's work in a variety of fields, including law, economics, technology, and others (e.g., Casadesus-Masanell & Hervas-Drane, 2015; Eaton, Elaluf-Calderwood, Sorensen, & Yoo, 2015; Farrell & Shapiro, 2008; Liebowitz, 2006; Lu, Wang, & Bendle, 2019).”
- Patent Laws, Product Life-Cycle Lengths, and Multinational Activity (2014, background): “Notice that τ(ξS) < τ (ξS), so that each line of (6) is the difference Rj(ξ ′ S)−Rj(ξS).”
- Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, and Platform Technologies (2009, background): “For theories that develop a richer model of pretrial bargaining, see Bessen and Meurer (2006) or Farrell and Shapiro (2008).”
- The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays (2008, background): “As Farrell and Shapiro (2008) argue, there are many cases where the incentives to litigate are low (or even negative), even in the absence of the transaction costs associated with litigation.”