The myth of the early aviation patent hold-up—how a US government monopsony commandeered pioneer airplane patents
| Autor: | John Howells, Ron D. Katznelson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Government business.product_category Aviation business.industry Economic behaviour and property rights History of technology Patent Pools Patent Hold-up Anti-trust Monopsony Manufacturers Aircraft Association National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics eminent domain Wright Brothers Navy Aviation War Department Mythology Eminent domain Monopsony Airplane Technology transfer Business Patent pool Law and economics |
| Zdroj: | Katznelson, R D & Howells, J 2015, ' The myth of the early aviation patent hold-up : How a U.S. Government monoposony commandeered pioneer airplane patents ', Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 1-64 . https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtu003 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/icc/dtu003 |
| Popis: | The prevailing historical accounts of the formation of the U.S. aircraft “patent pool” in 1917 assume the U.S. Government necessarily intervened to alleviate a patent hold-up among private aircraft manufacturers. We show these accounts to be inconsistent with the historical facts. We show that despite the existence of basic aircraft patents, aircraft manufacturers faced no patent barriers in the market dominated by Government demand. We show that the notion of the aircraft patent hold-up is a myth created by Government officials and used to persuade Congress to appropriate funds for eminent domain condemnation of basic aircraft patents. Government officials used the threat of condemnation to impose a depressed royalty structure on aircraft patents and induce key patent owners to enter a cross-licensing patent pool. We show that this cross-licensing agreement was not an archetypical private patent pool, but had been structured to suit the preferences of the Government as monopsonist; it imposed on private suppliers to the Government a nearly costless technology transfer. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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