There is increasing concern that overlapping patents in the field of genetics will create a costly and legally complex … field of genetics, notably with the patents pertaining to the SARS genome. In this review, we initially address the patent …

Patents are a key element of our knowledge based economy. They are meant to operate as an instrument for fostering …

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical …

as owners of real estate because patents were "property." Thus, by definition, patentees enjoyed the same rights as those … interest. Second, patents are now defined as securing only a right to exclude, and this has unhinged patent conveyance …

be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … first mechanism we discuss is price based regulation of patents through a system of increasing renewal fees. The second and …

embodies this power, but does it fulfill its essential purpose? This Note explores the scope of the exclusive rights of patents … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed …

Intellectual property is traditionally split into three main segments that of copyright, patents and trademarks. In …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In "Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue …