that European Patent Convention expressively prohibits software patenting has not been a major problem for firms and … accorded by the European Patent Office (EPO) and, to our knowledge, more than 30,000 software patents have been accorded so far … granting procedure and by the fact that firms belonging to the software sector do not apply for patent protection. Finally …

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 …

attendant constellation of tacit knowledge regarding the interpretation and application of the information in the patent. The … through the patent system also provides important stability to attendant tacit knowledge. Patent doctrines regarding prior art … patent procurement and enforcement must take such effects into account …

genetic engineering. The question facing researchers, patent practitioners, patent authorities, courts and legislators is … whether or not, and if yes, to which extent, protection for this technology can be accommodated under patent law. The present … paper first offers some background information on patent law in general and on patent law and case law concerning …

In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of … industry specific differences in the patent system from both a legal and economic perspective. The present article attempts to … that current European patent law holds substantial potential for technology-specific application. Even though the European …

The present report is based on an independent, policy-oriented investigation of the current European patent system. The … central premise of the report is that the patent system has so far been a positive factor in promoting innovation and the …. In acknowledging the importance of the patent system in relation to many aspects of society, it is also essential to …

Biotechnnology Directive in Belgian patent law. Whereas the first bill was hotly debated in parliament [see G. Van Overwalle, ‘Of …

trend was less prominent in the field of patent law and it was only with the coming into effect of the TRIPS Agreement that … Meilenstein von enormer Bedeutung, (a major milestone) since, for the first time in patent history, it introduced a worldwide … framework of minimum standards with regard to the grant, scope and use of patent rights. The present paper describes the global …

, is their call for a more responsible behaviour of patent owners in the exercise of their patent rights. In light of the … the current patent system, there is a need to reconceptualize patent rights, all the more so in the life sciences area. A … patent can no longer be viewed as a title giving (almost) complete freedom to exclude others from use, but rather as a …