, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about the current use of patents around the world. I … followed by a review of recent work by myself and co‐authors on regional patent systems, the impact of patents on firm …

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 …

create substantial tensions for the patent system to assure low-cost access to patented technologies at the back end of … technology transfer needs. This article first describes the uncertain case for relying on the patent system, the tensions that … needs, and the measures that have been proposed to limit the effect of the patent system on development of and access to …

The first sale or patent exhaustion doctrine reflects the limited nature of patents. In Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG … Electronics, Inc., the Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle that the authorized sale of a patented item exhausts the patent as … to that item. However, in the context of self-replicating technology, it is unclear how the patent exhaustion/first sale …

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

This study examines the effects of accelerated patent examination for fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies …. I analyze the impact of accelerated examination of 4IR patents on the patent examination period and the patent grant … rate in South Korea. I discovered that 4IR patent applications eligible for accelerated examination were under …

a patented item exhausts patent protection as to that particular item. However, it is unclear how the patent exhaustion … rather than patent law should govern the patent holder’s rights in an object embodying self-replicating technology after an …

This paper analyzes how strategic calibration of utility model patent regimes – which provide a type of patent right … technological development. To do this, the paper develops what appear to be the first indexes of utility model patent regime … Asian latecomers instituted utility model patent regimes that were less strict and offered less appropriability during …

in spillover benefits which can provide dynamic efficiency gains to offset the static efficiency losses of the patent … decisions reducing the quantum of inventiveness required in Australia for grant of a standard patent. It commences with a short … to patent grant, including the key elements in the complex legal approach to 'inventiveness'. The main section of the …

This essay is the introduction to a forthcoming volume entitled, Regulating Innovation: Competition Policy and Patent … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding …