Healthy organisms inevitably produce cancer cells, and vibrant patent systems inevitably let bad patents slip through … technological practitioners. Postissuance patent review (PIPR) has emerged as an invaluable errorcorrecting mechanism to prevent the … Patent Court Agreement (UPCA). The UPCA enables a lowcost patent revocation action on a broad range of grounds and with a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

law / C. Osti -- Automatic injunction in patent cases and European (competition) law / W. Hoyng & A.-C. Hoyng -- SEP, NPE … experience / E.A. Raffaelli -- Online markets, geo-blocking and competition / M. Tavassi & G. Bellomo -- Patent pools in the ERA … "Old Europe" doctrine : on re-balancing competition policy towards SEPs / A. Nicita & G. Corda -- Proprietary systems …

The paper studies the Lundbeck patent settlement antitrust case of the European Commission from an economic perspective … violated competition law. The paper shows that this decision is the correct one. More broadly the paper analyzes problem areas … of patent settlement assessment in Europe. It assesses what we can learn from the U.S. patent settlement debate with …