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 …

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 …

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 …

European countries and related instruments using the World Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT). Four definitions of … with wider economic indicators. The World Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) developed by the European Patent Office is …This report provides the first edition of a European patent indicator for access to genetic resources and benefit …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper assesses the impact of adopting a post-grant review institution in the US patent system by comparing the … 'opposition careers' of European Patent Office (EPO) equivalents of litigated US patents to those of a control group of EPO … employing these different methods in our data analysis. We find that EPO equivalents of US litigated patent applications are …