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 …

The US case Akamai Technologies Inc v Limelight Networks Inc brought the patent world's attention to the issue of if … ‘divided performance' issue in the Australian context, finding that, contrary to an earlier article, no patent infringement …, thereby, generate certainty for the myriad stakeholders who use the patent system …

property rules, using the patent system as an experimental model. Expressed in the nomenclature of Calabresi and Melamed, the … United States’ patent law has recently witnessed a shift away from property rules and towards liability rules. This Article … utility vary across patent systems that tend to emphasize either property rules or liability rules. The results of our …

patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …

vaccines are claimed in myriad – not Myriad – patents and patent applications, many of which are destined to be litigated over … their owners. While the world waits for this storm of patent litigation, federal courts continue to be busy with ownership … as top tens compiled by others. However, to quote an expression commonly heard in courts hearing patent cases, à chacun …

Because it must rely on imperfect information, the patent system will inevitably make mistakes. To determine how the … picture of the consequences of error in either direction. On the one hand, erroneous patent awards impose unjustified costs …. On the other hand, erroneous patent denials discourage successful inventors and reduce incentives to create in the future …

commercialized as well as whether this commercialization was profitable or not. Thus, this patent database measures technological … innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …

computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent … disputes, and the fragmentation of patent rights (.patent thickets.) which increases the transaction costs of enforcement. We …