Working Paper Series No. 15010 An Empirical Examination of Patent Hold-Up (A previous version of this paper circulated as “Patent Holdup: Do Patent Holders Holdup Innovation?�) Alexander Galetovic Universidad de los Andes
Stephen H. Haber
Department of Political Science and Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Ross Levine
Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley National Bureau of Economic Research March 31, 2015 Hoover Institution Working Group on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Prosperity Stanford University www.hooverip2.org