Patent Thickets

Patent Thickets is a strategic intellectual property phenomenon characterized by a dense and overlapping network of patents held by a single entity or multiple entities, which collectively create substantial barriers to innovation or market entry in a specific technological field.

Publications

3.2K

Citations

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Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Intellectual Property StrategyPatent Strategy

Publications

Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard-Setting

Carl Shapiro · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2001 · 623 citations · Full text

Law, Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law +16

Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation

Michael D. Noel, Mark Schankerman · Journal of Industrial Economics · 2013 · 229 citations · Full text

Management, Innovation Management, Strategy +17

Patent thickets, courts, and the market for innovation

Alberto Galasso, Mark Schankerman · The RAND Journal of Economics · 2010 · 200 citations

Law, Intellectual Property Law, Intellectual Property +10

How to measure patent thickets—A novel approach

Georg von Graevenitz, Stefan Wagner, Dietmar Harhoff · Economics Letters · 2010 · 168 citations

Management, Technology Management, Intellectual Property +15

Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets: The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity

Georg von Graevenitz, Stefan Wagner, Dietmar Harhoff · Journal of Industrial Economics · 2013 · 166 citations · Full text

Management, Innovation Management, Technology Management +16

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Authors

GV
Georg von Graevenitz
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany
8 publications · 486 citations
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DH
Dietmar Harhoff
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
5 publications · 388 citations
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CH
Christian Helmers
Santa Clara University, United States
4 publications · 108 citations
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SW
Stefan Wagner
European School of Management and Technology, Germany
4 publications · 378 citations
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MS
Mark Schankerman
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
4 publications · 486 citations
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Institutions

1–8 of 81

Venues

SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 11 publications · 1K citations
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Oxford Economic Papers
2 publications · 82 citations
2
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Nature Biotechnology
2 publications · 34 citations
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London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Repository · 2 publications · 57 citations
2
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Management Science
2 publications · 95 citations
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