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 objective of granting patent rights is to confer monopoly rights, the rights to exclusive use and exploitation of … similarity or identity in the claims as made by the applicant may be challenged before the patent office in an infringement suit …-infringement shifts upon the defendant. Moreover, in India, there is no presumption against the validity of the grant of patent by mere …

FRAND royalties / G. Ghidini & G. Trabucco -- Unified Patent Court & antitrust / G. Muscolo -- Online platforms and … 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 …

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … analysis, we find that in the presence of patent applications, VC financing occurs earlier. Our results also show that VCs pay …

Patent thickets have been identified as a major stumbling block in the development of new technologies, creating the … is an alternative direct method of judging thicket membership at the individual patent level. While this method … potentially is robust to drafting and jurisdictional differences in patent design, it is also costly to use on a large scale. We …