全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP11575 Grantbacks, Territorial Restraints, and the Type of Follow-On Innovation: The "But for..." Defense

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP11575
	DP11575 Grantbacks, Territorial Restraints, and the Type of Follow-On Innovation: The "But for..." Defense
	Kate Rockett; Pierre Régibeau; Masahito Ambashi
发表日期	2016-10-17
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	We analyse the effect of grantback clauses in licensing contracts. While competition authorities fear that grantback clauses might decrease the licensee’s ex post incentives to innovate, a standard defence is that grantback clauses are required for the patent-owner to agree to license its technology in the first place. We examine the validity of this “but for” defence and the equilibrium effect of grantback clauses on the innovation incentives of the licensee for both non-severable and severable innovations, which roughly correspond to infringing and non-infringing innovations. We show that grantback clauses do not increase the patent-holder’s incentives to license when non-severable innovations are at stake but they do when severable innovations are concerned – suggesting that the “but for” defence might be valid for severable innovations but not for non-severable ones, in direct contradiction to regulation in some jurisdictions. Moreover we show that, for severable innovations, grantback clauses can increase the range of parameters for which follow-on innovation by the licensee occurs. Our work extends the large literature on sequential innovation to an environment where information diffuses through licensing rather than through the mere act of patenting. In this different informational set up we show that Green and Scotchmer (1995)’s conclusion that the initial innovator should have a patent of infinite breadth no longer holds.
主题	Industrial Organization
关键词	Licensing Innovation Grantbacks Severable Patent scope Policy
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp11575-0
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540389
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kate Rockett,Pierre Régibeau,Masahito Ambashi. DP11575 Grantbacks, Territorial Restraints, and the Type of Follow-On Innovation: The "But for..." Defense. 2016.