Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may … be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … more innovative mechanism is quantity based regulation through the establishment of a system of Tradable Patent Rights. The …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given … support the major arguments for and against the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS …)? Finally, can the structure of TRIPS—both in terms of the core obligations it imposes on the WTO members and the flexibilities …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

surplus attributable to IP approaches zero. The value of the same patent held by a lagging producer for licensing to the …

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 …

one intellectual property monopoly. For example, a machine can be protected under patent law, but drawings of that machine …