strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data … strategy reveals there was an almost universal drop in patent social value in the second half of the 1990s, signaling a shift … companies increasing their focus on patent value relative to companies from other industries. On average, aerospace and software …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

aspects of UK patent law and asks whether some of the activities it rewards deserve the protection they get. The argument is … that patent law should more precisely match and reward the advance the inventor discloses; that patents should not be … the patent holder and the public fairly expect to be included with the patent’s claims should be caught; and that patents …

creation of lesser estates or restrictive covenants for real property. In sum, early American courts incorporated into patent … concepts of "assignments" and "licenses." Given widespread confusion today concerning patent conveyance doctrines, this chapter … economic parlance), but patent theorists today can draw at least two important lessons from it. First, it reveals how …

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 …

Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may … be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … more innovative mechanism is quantity based regulation through the establishment of a system of Tradable Patent Rights. The …

exponential growth of patents claiming human DNA sequences might result in patent thickets, royalty stacking and, ultimately, a … inventions accessible for further use in research, diagnosis or treatment. The models include patent pools, clearing house … problems in the current gene patent landscape. • Descriptions of major models currently used to deal with patent thickets …

future of plant breeding in the light of developments around plant breeder’s rights and patent rights. The following … intellectual property in this? Who are the main patent holders in plant breeding? What are the socio-economic consequences of these … agriculture, which led to the introduction of patent rights in the breeding sector. This system of intellectual property rights …

and genome related inventions, as the rise of patents may lead to “patent thickets” and royalty stacking, frustrating the … mitigate the alleged hindering effect of patent thickets and facilitate access to ICE and genome related inventions within the … borders of the patent system. Several approaches have been put forward to deal with the quagmire of overlapping patent rights …