A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry
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Copy CitationKenneth Flamm, Standards, Patents and Innovations (International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 36, 2012), chap. 6, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/standards-patents-and-innovations/tale-two-standards-patent-pools-and-innovation-optical-disk-drive-industry.
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The impact of patent pools on the rate and direction of technological change is an open question in both theoretical...
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