The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the European Union. It is a forum for people with ideas from Britain and across the continent to discuss the many political, economic and social challenges facing Europe. It seeks to work with...

With the passage of what ended up as the America Invents Act in 2011, an extended, multi-year effort — often characterized as “patent reform” — reached something of a culmination. The Act outlined several significant changes in patent law, the first being a change in who was entitled to...

U.S. patent law protects only inventions that are nontrivial advances of the prior art. The legal requirement is called nonobviousness. During the 1980s, the courts relaxed the nonobviousness requirement for all inventions, and a new form of intellectual property, with a weaker nonobviousness...