. -- heterogeneous inventions ; innovation size ; intellectual property rights ; patents ; patent filing fees ; patentability standards … mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

The role of individual inventors, small firms and entrepreneurs in the patent courts has become controversial for two … patents in cases filed in 2000 and 2002, we explore how the resolution of patent cases relates to the nature of the parties …. In particular, we examine whether individual inventors and entrepreneurs are ability to defend their patent rights and …

Innovation is an inherently uncertain process. Success is typically coupled with risk and we can only hope that those … with great ideas will persevere. To encourage innovation, society reduces some of the innovation risk through structures … simply stop playing the game.Such uncertainty has recently been a topic of great concern in the U.S. patent system. Some …

creation of lesser estates or restrictive covenants for real property. In sum, early American courts incorporated into patent … concepts of "assignments" and "licenses." Given widespread confusion today concerning patent conveyance doctrines, this chapter … economic parlance), but patent theorists today can draw at least two important lessons from it. First, it reveals how …

between the propensity to jointly own a patent and proximity in the product market; b) joint patents are associated with less …

sort of fungibility that facilitates such a comparison. Where a patent has been licensed only exclusively or not at all …

divergences between parties' initial motivations to obtain patents and those patents' predominant uses later on “patent schisms ….”Because traditional patent law theories typically treat the purposes of patents as static, scholars have neglected to explicitly examine … patent schisms and the reasons behind them. This is so despite the pervasiveness of patent schisms in a variety of important …

This paper analyzes how injunctions relate to patent hold-up problems. To this end, we present a simple model of … licensing negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm in the shadow of litigation. More specifically, we consider … the situation in which an injunction is granted as a matter of course if a patent is found valid and infringed upon in …