The TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual … such a perception is mistaken. The EU certainly seeks to secure TRIPs plus provisions with its negotiating partners …

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

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 …

As an economist, I find the current state of the law regarding damages for patent infringement – most particularly that … relating to apportionment – frustrating at best and woefully incomplete at worst. Namely, damages case law for utility patent … rule (EMVR) versus the smallest salable patent practicing unit (SSPPU) principle. The modern pair of EMVR and SSPPU options …

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) receives more prior art submissions by patent applicants than its … patent examiners have the capacity to process. Although applicant prior art submissions are highly likely to contain … applicants in their examination of patent applications. The information overload suffered by patent examiners has deleterious …

The last several years have witnessed a flurry of transformative patent reform activity. The Supreme Court has issued … the extraterritorial reach of the patent act. Now Congress stands poised to ratify the most significant and far …-reaching overhaul of the patent system in at least 45 years. In this study, we analyzed major newspaper coverage of the patent system …

The prevailing historical accounts of the formation of the US aircraft “patent pool” in 1917 assume the US government … necessarily intervened to alleviate a patent hold-up among private aircraft manufacturers. We show these accounts to be … no patent barriers in the market dominated by government demand. We show that the notion of the aircraft patent hold …