Choosing the Competition and Patent Licensing
研究专利持有者如何通过许可选择专利到期后的竞争对手，通过安排行业由“弱”竞争者组成来延长其主导地位，并提供了相关案例。
This article examines licensing as a means of choosing the competitors which a patentee-monopolist will face in the period after the patent expires. The queue of entrants consists of two firms which differ in their relative "strengths" as competitors (for example, by size or level of marginal cost). By structuring the industry to be composed of "weak" competitors, the incumbent is able to prolong its dominant position in the industry after the patent expires. Examples are presented in which the evidence suggests that "choosing the competition" was an important motivation of the licensor's behavior.