We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions – Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK … information at the case, litigant, and patent level for patent cases filed at the major courts in the four jurisdictions. We find …

Congress “repeatedly stated [that] its paramount goal” in having inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and … a patent's validity.” Duplicative patent challenges within and across IPRs and district court litigation is the focus of …

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 compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions – Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK … information at the case, litigant, and patent level for patent cases filed at the major courts in the four jurisdictions. We find …

the analysis away from the gap between the prior art and the invention to the invention only. The Patent Office, the … technologies, and conflicts with basic patent theory. Accordingly, the Patent Office and courts need to reconsider how they use …

Although patent litigation has become increasingly global, with litigants earning billion-dollar verdicts and seeking … litigants are increasingly drawn, and to which policy makers interested in harmonizing the U.S. patent system look in vain for … database including nearly 9,000 patent suits from seven of the largest and most judicially-active countries in the European …

under Article 207 TFEU requires the CJEU to interpret the patent provisions of the TRIPS Agreement and, if so, what are the … implications for patent protection in the EU. It examines whether the Court’s jurisprudence on the direct effect and interpretation … of the substantive patent provisions of the TRIPS Agreement is good law in the post-Lisbon era, arguing that the Court …

This paper argues that the consequences of the ‘fragmentation’ of the European patent system are more dramatic than the … mere prohibitive costs of maintaining a patent in force in many jurisdictions. First, detailed analysis of judicial systems …‐level competition policy and granting authority ultimately facing national jurisdictional primacy on patent issues. These high degrees …