relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/100/
title: Technology Adoption and Fuzzy Patent Rights
creator: Chiou, Jing-Yuan
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: K Law (General)
description: This paper considers why a patentee may have little incentives to reduce the uncertainty  of patent boundary. Clearer patent rights, i.e., when patent examination results  better predict subsequent court decisions, provide better guidance to technologyspecific  investment and encourage technology adoption. Undermild conditions, however,  the patentee’s post-adoption payoff decreases in clarity. The patentee prefers to  maintain “fuzzy” patent rights in order to monopolize the use of the technology, or  when promoting technology adoption is not a strong concern. The latter happens  when the patentee, as a pure licensor, has a low (ex ante) quality invention.  
date: 2010-12
type: Working Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/100/1/chiou2010b.pdf
identifier:   Chiou, Jing-Yuan  Technology Adoption and Fuzzy Patent Rights.  Working Paper       (Unpublished)