Title
ABSTRACT: Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting
Author
Bernhard Ganglmair, and Emanuele Tarantino
Date
6/11/2014
(Original Publish Date: 10/1/2011)
(Original Publish Date: 10/1/2011)
Abstract
We present a model of industry standard setting with two-sided asymmetric information about the existence of intellectual property. We provide an equilibrium analysis of (a) firms' incentives to communicate ideas for improvements of an industry standard, and (b) firms' decisions to disclose the existence of intellectual property to other participants of the standardization process.