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 …

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 …

Patent thickets are sets of overlapping intellectual property rights that occur in fragmented technology markets. Their … patent thickets on market value of publicly traded manufacturing firms. I find that patent thickets decrease the market value … R&D activities in response to patent thickets, they do reduce negative cost effects of patent thickets on market value …

largely satisfied with today's patent system while the electronics, software and Internet industries are not. This article … inventive process for pharmaceuticals. Our patent system, however, has no analogous requirement for the other fields. In them … biotech industry may be closing the gap in early-stage patenting. This article suggests two ways to improve our patent system …

How does patent enforcement affect subsequent innovation? I exploit patent infringement litigation in the United States … to analyze the effect of patent enforcement on cumulative innovation. The results imply that subsequent innovation … patent and reductions in asymmetric information are particular driver of the increase in follow-on innovation. Although there …