Green Technology Diffusion: A Post-Mortem Analysis of the Eco-Patent Commons

This research was financially supported by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Contreras also acknowledges support from the University of Utah and the Albert and Elaine Borchard Fund for Faculty Excellence. The authors thank Bassem Awad, Hans-Jochen Banhardt, Joshua Sarnoff, Amol Joshi, and the participants at the 2017 Patent Pledges Workshop held at American University Washington College of Law (which was conducted with financial support from Google, Inc.), and the 6th Annual Roundtable of Standard Setting Organizations and Patents held at the Searle Center, for their valuable discussion, feedback and input on this article. The authors also thank each person who generously agreed to be interviewed for this article. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.