Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2006
ISSN
0002-8282
Publisher
American Economic Association
Language
en-US
Abstract
The recent explosion of patenting and patent disputes has sparked a growing literature on the economics of patent litigation. Generally, models in this literature take the existence of a dispute as given. This assumption is troubling because it hampers the interpretation of empirical studies of patent litigation and the assessment of many patent policy reforms.
Recommended Citation
James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer,
Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes
,
in
96
American Economic Review
77
(2006).
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