Patent Pools and Antitrust Policy
International Review of Business Research Papers
Vol. 10. No. 2. , September 2014, Pages: 1 – 8Patent Pools and Antitrust Policy
In this paper, we showed that patent pools can generate the highest welfare levels among different licensing arrangements. If the patents are blocking, the patentees are not in a horizontal relationship with respect to those patents. Therefore, the Antitrust Agency would be unlikely to challenge this arrangement.JEL Codes: K21, L41 and M21