Week 5

Cumulative innovations: Hold-up problem

• Lecture

  • • Monday February 12, 2018

• Readings

  • • (BP) Section 19.3.1

    • (LM) Part II, pp. 37-42

    • Shapiro, C. (2001). Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard Setting. NBER/Innovation Policy and the Economy 1: 119-150. (here)

    • Slides (see attached file)

• Preparation for next week

  • • Read (and comment if you wish) on IPdigIT

    • Do patent rights facilitate or impede cumulative innovation?

    • The smartphone patents war: Nothing really surprising

• • Deadline for submitting a comment: Friday February 16, 23:59

    • Watch this video about cumulative innovation: