The paper investigates whether patent fees are an effective mechanism to deter the filing of low-quality patent … applications. The study analyzes the effect on patent quality of the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1982, which resulted in a … substantial increase in patenting fees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Results from a series of difference …

interac-tion between these two innovation tools by determining the impact of a crowdfunding campaign’s patent status on the … campaign’s success and de-livery. The first study examines 9,184 Kickstarter campaigns in patent-eli-gible categories to … determine whether patented or patent-pending labeled projects are more likely to reach their funding goal and in turn achieve …

The paper investigates whether patent fees are an effective mechanism to deter the filing of low-quality patent … applications. The study analyzes the effect on patent quality of the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1982, which resulted in a … substantial increase in patenting fees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Results from a series of difference …

The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed … system starts with an initial exclusive patent period that is much shorter, and then includes renewable periods of …

An “invention,” as used in the United States patent laws, refers to anything made by man that employs or harnesses a …

In the context of the overall purpose of patent policy - to induce invention that would not otherwise occur and which … starts with assessing the evidence for the need for a patent system, considers who are the major beneficiaries of the patent … system and reviews the extent of judicial law-making on patent policy. In Australia the extension of the patent system to …

insight, the property-based remedies that often flow from patent infringement can result in important distinctions between …

Judicial decisions, agency actions and legislative enactments have promoted a creeping reversion toward the weak patent … choice between a “property rights” vision of the patent system in which resource allocation is principally directed by market … signals and an administrative vision of the patent system in which resource allocation is perpetually subject to adjustment by …

This paper rejects the fundamental "private law" premise of patent law remedies that courts should always attempt to … restore the status quo ante by making the patentee "whole" in the event of infringement. Instead, the patent system and its … optimizing innovation incentives. Such an approach mandates significant changes in the structure of patent remedies. For example …