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. Using a binary size measure, we find strong support for the traditional view that firms patent their most important …
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Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes … made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms … benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are caught up in patent thickets. Using data on opposition against patents …
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other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide patent-like protection or further strengthen existing patent … drug companies: data exclusivity and patent linkage. As noted in earlier chapters (separately posted on SSRN), not all … competition, a thorough understanding of these requirements (as well as how they intersect with patent protection) is important to …
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Post-grant validity challenges at patent offices rely on the private initiative of third parties to correct mistakes … made by patent offices. We hypothesize that incentives to bring post-grant validity challenges are reduced when many firms … benefit from revocation of a patent and when firms are caught up in patent thickets. Using data on opposition against patents …
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The patent law regimes of the United States and Europe are ambiguous regarding whether or not the subject matter of … defining technology; and it confounds contemporary decision-making by patent offices on the patentability of inventions and by … physical in order to be technical. Despite such ambiguity, patent law throughout the world is arguably founded on the idea that …
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the current European patent system, one of the most advanced, complex, and contested economic systems in Europe. The … conclusions elaborate on some normative implications regarding the weaknesses of the European patent system, and underline the …
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Since the mapping of the human genome and the technical innovations in the field of biotechnology, patent law has gone … legislative acts and judicial decisions, ensuring a fair balance between the interests of patent right holders and third parties … shaping the patent policy on an international level are the patent offices of the United States of America, Japan and the …
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. In recent litigation, three issues have risen to the fore, popularized under the labels “patent ambush”, “patent holdup …” and “patent thickets”. There is a risk that the discussion of standardization, in academic and policy circles, becomes …
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primary substance of vital functions'. Thus I hold, that the 'water' for the Patent Law is the legal definition of the term … ‘invention' as the primary substance for “vital functions” of the Patent Law. The definitions are important enough in traditional … reality that unfortunately in majority Patent Laws (Acts) worldwide as well as in international agreements are lacking the …
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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 …
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