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Assessing the Link between Standards and Patents

Assessing the Link between Standards and Patents

Anne Layne-Farrar, A. Jorge Padilla
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 33
ISBN13: 9781466621602|ISBN10: 1466621605|EISBN13: 9781466621619
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2160-2.ch002
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Layne-Farrar, Anne, and A. Jorge Padilla. "Assessing the Link between Standards and Patents." Innovations in Organizational IT Specification and Standards Development, edited by Kai Jakobs, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 19-51. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2160-2.ch002

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Layne-Farrar, A. & Padilla, A. J. (2013). Assessing the Link between Standards and Patents. In K. Jakobs (Ed.), Innovations in Organizational IT Specification and Standards Development (pp. 19-51). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2160-2.ch002

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Layne-Farrar, Anne, and A. Jorge Padilla. "Assessing the Link between Standards and Patents." In Innovations in Organizational IT Specification and Standards Development, edited by Kai Jakobs, 19-51. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2160-2.ch002

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Abstract

Some policymakers, courts, and academics have expressed concerns that when a firm’s patents are incorporated into a standard, the patents gain importance and can bestow on the patent holder market power that can be abused when the standard is commercialized. This paper extends the existing literature on the effect that standards can have on patents. This analysis has two aims: first, to better understand how an SSO might confer importance on included patents and second, to move closer to an empirical understanding of the impact of a standard on included patents. The authors create a dataset of patents named to voluntary standard setting organizations, as well as the patent pools that sometimes develop around such standards. The authors rely on proxies to capture a patent’s importance or value.

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