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Different Rules of Legal-Cost Allocation and Patent Holdup

In: Economic and Legal Issues in Competition, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, and the Cost of Raising Children

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  • Elisabetta Ottoz
  • Franco Cugno

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Keywords: Legal costs, British system, American system, system favoring the defendant, patent holdup, K20, K21, O34

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  • Elisabetta Ottoz & Franco Cugno, 2015. "Different Rules of Legal-Cost Allocation and Patent Holdup," Research in Law and Economics, in: Economic and Legal Issues in Competition, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, and the Cost of Raising Children, volume 27, pages 143-159, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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    DOI: 10.1108/S0193-589520150000027005
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