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 …

Economists, legal scholars and policy makers are concerned about the impact of patent litigation on the rate and … direction of US innovation and on the functioning of the US intellectual property system. At this time, however, there is no … reliable, comprehensive, free and publicly accessible source of patent litigation data. As a first step towards overcoming this …

One of the greatest challenges facing patent holders is the enforcement of their rights against foreign (non …-U.S.) infringers. Jurisdictional rules can prevent patent holders from filing patent infringement suits where they have the greatest … likelihood of success in enforcement, such as where the infringer is located, has his seat, or holds his assets; instead, patent …

policy statement does not link the need for a robust patent system with the generation of the very technological innovation … must support innovation both upstream and downstream. Avoiding the temptation to resurrect patent hold-up arguments is the … intellectual property (IP) rights results in less innovation, thereby favoring vertical integration. The SEP licensing model …

Use of patent data by academics is widespread, especially in scholarship related to innovation and technology … management. However, even with increased online access to patent databases, patent searches at scale are still challenging. We … present Patentopia, a simple online tool extracting information from the PatentsView portal linked to the United States Patent …

This article uses the FTC's October 2003 white paper on the U.S. patent system as the point of departure for a plenary … system's two most fundamental economic questions: (1) what things are patentable, and (2) what a patent protects. In each … case it demonstrates, by detailed reference to current U.S. patent law, how far the U.S. system is from providing clear …