Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Ottoz Elisabetta
Author-Email: elisabetta.ottoz@unito.it
Author-Name: Cugno Franco 
Author-Email: franco.cugno@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Hybrid Licensing of Product Innovations
Abstract: This paper studies the feasibility and the effects of hybrid licensing agreements involving product 
innovations protected by patents and trade secrets. Since incentive and efficiency considerations suggest that 
a typical contract should provide for a negative fixed fee and post-patent royalties at the same unit level as 
before patent’s expiration, we conclude that per se prohibitions of these practices are not justified on economics 
grounds. 
Length: 11 pages
Creation-Date: 2008-07
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2008dip/10_wp_ottoz_cugno.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:dipeco:200810