This paper assesses the impact of adopting a post-grant review institution in the US patent system by comparing the … 'opposition careers' of European Patent Office (EPO) equivalents of litigated US patents to those of a control group of EPO … employing these different methods in our data analysis. We find that EPO equivalents of US litigated patent applications are …

of agreements by which brand-name drug companies pay generics to settle patent litigation and delay entering the market … of the patent" test applied by the dissent and several appellate courts — would have meant "game over" for challenges to …