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 …

specialist circles of patent law, Hatch-Waxman Amendment ANDAs, for which final FDA approval is attained, can create patent …

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 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 …

In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of … industry specific differences in the patent system from both a legal and economic perspective. The present article attempts to … that current European patent law holds substantial potential for technology-specific application. Even though the European …

patent claim construction decisions by the U.S. district courts. Because claim construction often determines the outcome of … patent litigation, the high appellate claim construction reversal rate contributes to significant uncertainty among inventors … patent judges so as to reduce this unacceptably high reversal rate. This article concludes that designation of specialist …

patent claim construction decisions by the U.S. district courts. Because claim construction often determines the outcome of … patent litigation, the high appellate claim construction reversal rate contributes to significant uncertainty among inventors … patent judges so as to reduce this unacceptably high reversal rate. This article concludes that designation of specialist …

Since the mapping of the human genome and the technical innovations in the field of biotechnology, patent law has gone … legislative acts and judicial decisions, ensuring a fair balance between the interests of patent right holders and third parties … shaping the patent policy on an international level are the patent offices of the United States of America, Japan and the …