that address the following questions: 1. Is the proposed collection of information necessary for the NRC to properly perform its functions? Does the information have practical utility? 2. Is the burden estimate accurate? 3. Is there a way to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected? 4. How can the burden of the information collection be minimized, including t...

This article considers the problem of patent licensing in a Cournot oligopoly under a class of general demand functions. We consider two cases, the case where the innovator is an outsider and the one where it is one of the incumbent firms. The licensing policies considered are upfront fees, royalties and combinations of the two. It is shown that (i) for generic values of magnitudes of the innov...

Open source licenses such as the GPL are designed as licenses for software. Although they can be used for other types of content such as books, a set of licenses called open content licenses have been developed for documents of various kinds. This chapter examines the reasons why such licenses have been developed and looks at some typical examples.