The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed … system starts with an initial exclusive patent period that is much shorter, and then includes renewable periods of …

An extensive literature exists regarding the patent disclosure and licensing commitments made by participants in … the U.S. patent assertion events for seven major standards (GSM, USB, 802.11, Bluetooth, UMTS, H.264, LTE). More …

Traditional patent law theories teach that a patent's rights of exclusion are a patent's key benefit to the patentee … and are necessary to make the patent system work. Yet patentees are increasingly giving away such rights, in whole or in … part, as part of a growing phenomenon: patent pledges. In these scenarios, patentees voluntarily commit to limit …

In a patent infringement suit, the alleged infringer wins with a ruling of either patent invalidity or non … patent invalidation may also affect incentives to innovate. We adapt the "innovative industries'' model of Segal and Whinston … (2007) to study patent litigation strategy and rates of innovation. We show that a legal regime where infringement is …