Patent trolls are maligned for impeding innovation, but new research by Penn professor David Abrams suggests that they actually play a more complex and sometimes beneficial role.…Read More
Why Patent Trolls Are Not All Bad
non-practicing entities
The NPE: Benevolent Middleman or Stick-Up Artist?
How do non-practicing entities impact innovation? This question has enormous relevance to industrial policy, with virtually no direct evidence to inform it. There are two dominant theoretical perspectives, one of which views Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs) as benevolent middlemen reallocating intellectual property (IP) to where it can be best used.…Read More