Resumen de Essential intellectual property rights and inventors� involvement in standardization

Byeongwoo Kang, Kazuyuki Motohashi

• Obtaining essential intellectual property rights (IPRs) is important for innovation and competition in the network industry, where technical standardization plays a critical role in development. In this study, we empirically investigate the determinants of essential IPRs for wireless communication standards using the patent database. In particular, we focus on the inventors� involvement in technical standardization by identifying and collecting their patent applications.