Universities and companies are rushing to the patent office in record numbers to patent nanotechnology inventions. This … rush to the patent office is so significant that many law firms have established nanotechnology practice groups, and the U ….S. Patent and Trademark Office has now created a new technology class designed to track nanotechnology products. Three big …

This Comment evaluates the economic effects of the patent misuse doctrine. The patent misuse doctrine is an equitable …” their patent grant, either by using the patent to violate the antitrust laws or by extending their patent monopoly in some … other way. The author first describes the nature and scope of antitrust protection in the patent area, and contrasts the …

How can we allow patent examiners to effectively distinguish between patentable and unpatentable inventions, without …

The Supreme Court upended the patent world in the past decade with a series of decisions restricting the scope of … patent-eligible subject matter. The culmination of those cases – Alice v. CLS Bank -- has been at the center of a firestorm … appeals to the Federal Circuit involving patentable subject matter, we explore not only how patent owners fare in patentable …

systematically prevents from challenging bad patents. Curiously, it is the very group patent law is supposed to support: inventors … themselves. The century-old doctrine of assignor estoppel precludes inventors who file patent applications from later challenging … unfair to allow the inventor to benefit from obtaining a patent and later change her tune and attack the patent when it …