Tradable Patent Rights

32 Pages Posted: 10 Oct 2007 Last revised: 25 May 2014

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Ian Ayres

Yale University - Yale Law School; Yale University - Yale School of Management

Gideon Parchomovsky

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law; University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Date Written: 2007

Abstract

Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The first mechanism we discuss is price based regulation of patents through a system of increasing renewal fees. The second and more innovative mechanism is quantity based regulation through the establishment of a system of Tradable Patent Rights. The formalization of tradable patent rights would essentially create a secondary market for patent permits in which patent protection will be bought and sold.

Keywords: permits, thickets, license fees, licensing, social costs, infringement, renewal fees, tragedy of the commons, enforcement

JEL Classification: D23, K11, O34,

Suggested Citation

Ayres, Ian and Parchomovsky, Gideon, Tradable Patent Rights (2007). Stanford Law Review, Vol. 60, Pg. 863, 2007, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 07-23, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 350, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 145, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-43, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1020276 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1020276

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Gideon Parchomovsky

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law ( email )

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University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School ( email )

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