.” Where a patent applicant promises a certain utility to their invention, their application must demonstrate or soundly …

both governments to the issue of regulatory delay eroding some period of patent protection. Second, the paper considers the … impact of the principle of free movement of goods within the European Union on the incentive structure of the patent system … could be pursued without undercutting the effective operation of the patent system. The paper suggests that such a …

patentable subject matter by the courts defeat the underlying purposes of the patent system by foreclosing entire avenues of … uncomfortably), then the courts should aim to ‘breathe life’ into the bare, and sometimes dated, words of patent statutes. Indeed …, patent statutes are drafted with a view to the unforeseen; any judicial interpretation of the word “invention” must give …