* Ph. D. Candidate (economics) and JD Candidate, Northwestern University Department of
Economics and Northwestern University School of Law. t Briggs and Morgan Professor of …

This article empirically studies current claims that patent trolls, also known as patent
assertion entities (PAEs) or non‐practicing entities (NPEs), behave badly in litigation by …

This Article presents an in-depth case study of a series of infringement suits filed by" patent
bullies." Unlike the oft-discussed" patent trolls"--which typically sell no products or services …

Innovation is usually framed in terms of expanding the knowledge frontier or the
commercialization of new ideas. However, it is much more than that. Innovation is also about …

Previously, he was deputy chief economist at Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade (DFAIT)(now Global Affairs Canada), with responsibility for economic …

This dissertation presents an examination of the pharmaceutical industry with a primary
focus on the importance of intangible assets from the original institutional economics …

We model “patent privateering”—whereby producing firms sell patents to Patent Assertion
Entities (PAEs), which then license them under the threat of litigation—in a bargaining game …

Council of Economic Advisors to Judge Richard Posner, 4 the nearly unanimous view
appears to be that patent" trolls" are evil. The argument is that since patent trolls do not …

The pursuit of patents is a key avenue of economic development and revenue generation for
American research universities, and one with significant policy implications for higher …

Patents are regarded as a key policy instrument to spur innovation and technological
progress, based on the social bargain that inventors disclose their novel and nonobvious …