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When standards meet patents: The economics of SEPs and FRAND (Part II)
Standards solve a coordination problem—and then create a new one. Once an industry converges on a technical interface, compatibility becomes a…
Feb 26
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Gaétan de Rassenfosse
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When standards meet patents: The economics of SEPs and FRAND (Part I)
Standards create enormous economic value by making products work together. But they also create a special kind of bargaining over patents.
Feb 3
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Gaétan de Rassenfosse
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Patent rights and cumulative innovation: Part II
When courts, libraries, and secrecy laws shift patent rights, what actually happens to follow-on innovation?
Dec 29, 2025
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Gaétan de Rassenfosse
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Patent rights and cumulative innovation: Part I
Balancing the first breakthrough against the next thousand improvements
Dec 9, 2025
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Gaétan de Rassenfosse
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National Treatment: Principle or Practice?
Inside the national-treatment debate: theory, evidence, and the line between bias, burden, and selection.
Nov 4, 2025
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Gaétan de Rassenfosse
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Patent citations: Tracing spillovers or chasing shadows?
Measuring how ideas move across firms and regions
Oct 3, 2025
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Gaétan de Rassenfosse
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Do more citations mean better patents?
What patent citations really measure
Aug 28, 2025
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International Trade and Intellectual Property
Let's talk about something other than tariffs
Jun 24, 2025
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