Abstract
This study analyzes the citation relationship between standard essential patents (SEPs) and proprietary patents of firms, who participate in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) telecommunication standard-setting organization. The focal firm declares standard essential patents and licenses them to other firms based on FRAND (Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory), which is a means for value creation. However, the technical knowledge of the standard essential patents of the focal firm is learned and imitated by other firms, which may become unexpected knowledge spillovers. In other words, other firms cite standard essential patents of the focal firm to apply for new proprietary patents will limit the space for the focal firm to capture value. This study finds that the value and timeliness of standard essential patents and the innovative capacity of the focal firm will increase the self-citation of proprietary patents from focal firms' standard essential patents. Patent's self-citation is keen on exploitative learning. Our analysis results further explain how firms conduct exploitative learning in selective revealing.
| Translated title of the contribution | Revealing Knowledge while Self-Learning: The Declaration of Standard Essential Patents and Exploitative Learning |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 3-50 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Journal | 中山管理評論 = Sun Yat-Sen Management Review |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 Mar |