climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent … innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, all countries having patent systems required patentable inventions to be … nonobvious. The nonobviousness requirement is considered to be so central to patent policy that it has frequently been called the … more unabashedly normative component, which might facilitate innovation and progress in law …

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

We analyze the effect of patent thickets on entry into technology areas by firms in the UK. We present a model that … the potential for hold‐up in patent thickets. We show empirically that our measure of patent thickets is associated with a … evidence indicates that patent thickets raise entry costs, which leads to less entry into technologies regardless of a firm …

development through competition. We provide a novel detailed empirical study of the extent and timing of designing around patent … Edison’s incandescent lamp patent in 1891-1894 stimulated a surge of patenting. We studied the specific design features of …-infringing designs by filing date. Most of these non-infringing designs circumvented Edison’s patent claims by creating substitute …

hindering effect on innovation of the continuous increase of patents in the life sciences. The academic debate on the possible … Deter Innovation? The Anti-commons in Biomedical Research’ in 1998. Our past research aimed at contributing to the anti …) measures, we explored to what extent collaborative licensing mechanisms (private ordering measures), such as patent pools and …

Patent Office exercises regularly and effectively: technology classification. This agency-court asymmetry has persisted for … decades but has now become unmanageably problematic for two related reasons. First, Supreme Court guidance, patent reform … legislation, and academic commentary have all broadly rejected long-standing patent exceptionalism in administrative law, while …

Judge Bryson recently asserted in Association for Molecular Pathology v. US Patent and Trademark Office (dissenting …-in-part) that human gene patents "present a significant obstacle to the next generation of innovation in genetic medicine … with his position that certain gene patents should be declared patent ineligible, reflects a widely held misperception that …