The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial, setting became overtly … substitutionary in the America Invents Act. No longer content to encourage court litigants to rely on Patent Office expertise for … emergent border between court and agency power in the U.S. patent system. By design, the border is not absolute. Concurrent …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … participation of a patent's original examiner in the opposition division as an instrument. We find a disciplinary effect of … invalidation: Affected inventors file 20% fewer patent applications in the decade after the decision. This effect is entirely …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … participation of a patent's original examiner in the opposition division as an instrument. We find a disciplinary effect of … invalidation: Affected inventors file 20% fewer patent applications in the decade after the decision. This effect is entirely …

‘invention' as the primary substance for “vital functions” of the Patent Law. The definitions are important enough in traditional … legal definition of the term ‘invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal is based on my … primary substance of vital functions'. Thus I hold, that the 'water' for the Patent Law is the legal definition of the term …

'invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal for use the RWP basis on my circa 25 years … 'Patentable Invention as the Legal Object in the Light of Systems Thinking Big (whole) Picture in Patent Laws' I have presented in …The present article is in principle the continuation of my one 'Legal Definition of the Term 'Invention' as the Primary …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …