The Patentist
Gaétan de RassenfosseProviding a clear and non-technical introduction to patent rights, focusing on insights from the economic literature.
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When standards meet patents: The economics of SEPs and FRAND (Part II)
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Standards solve a coordination problem—and then create a new one. Once an industry converges on a technical interface, compatibility becomes a requirement, not a preference. If implementing that interface requires patented te...
When standards meet patents: The economics of SEPs and FRAND (Part I)
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A small museum could be built from the world’s electrical plugs: three prongs, two prongs, angled pins… and the adapter industry that exists only because standards differ. The punchline is that none of these designs is intrin...
Patent rights and cumulative innovation: Part II
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The previous post on The Patentist reviewed the theoretical literature on patent rights and cumulative innovation. We discovered that there is no one-size-fits-all patent system. Because technologies and industry structures d...
Patent rights and cumulative innovation: Part I
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In the first post of The Patentist, we explained that patents should only be granted for inventions that would not have been created in the absence of the patent system. Granting exclusivity to inventions that would have been...
National Treatment: Principle or Practice?
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National treatment requires that foreign applicants receive the same legal treatment as domestic applicants. This principle is embedded in Article 2 of the 1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and i...
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I am a Professor of Economics of Innovation at EPFL, Switzerland. If you enjoy evidence-based takes on patents and innovation, join hundreds of readers who receive The Patentist directly in their inbox.
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