an important input to subsequent innovation, the exclusive rights conferred by a patent may also impose significant costs … upon follow-on innovators. Optimal patent policy should seek to maximize the patent incentive effect, while minimizing … burdens placed on future innovation by tailoring the scope of the patent to the characteristics of each technological sector …

Repeat patent plaintiffs - those who sue eight or more times on the same patents - have a disproportionate effect on … the patent system. They are responsible for a sizeable fraction of all patent lawsuits. Their patents should be among the … strongest, according to all economic measures of patent quality. And logic suggests that repeat patent plaintiffs should be risk …

The USPTO receives more applications today than it ever has before. What happens to those applications? Patent … available, because the law prevented anyone from every finding out what happened to patent applications that did not ultimately …

just such a blind market. Want to know if you're getting a good deal on a patent license, or acquiring rights in a … technology? Too bad. Even if that patent or ones like it have been licensed dozens of times before, the terms of those licenses …, including the price itself, will almost invariably be confidential. Patent owners who want to put their rights up for sale face …

Patent law is crucial to encourage technological innovation. But as the patent system currently stands, diverse … differently. The result is a crisis in the patent system, where patents calibrated to the needs of prescription drugs wreak havoc … of Chicago Press, courts should use the tools the patent system already gives them to treat patents in different …

The case for patent enforcement driving innovation is far from clear. But patents may serve myriad other purposes …

fees” has declined. It's now harder for a patent assertion entity (PAE), or patent “troll," and in certain cases, operating …

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 …