intensity. Looking ahead, three factors suggest the patent system may affect financial services as it has electronics: (1) the …

modern patent law. But economic theory has moved on. Since the 1990s, legal scholars have repeatedly mined the discipline to … literature’s broader lessons for doctrine. This article asks how well today’s patent doctrine follows and occasionally departs …’s PHOSITA standard. The second principle holds that patent breadth should be chosen to balance the benefits of innovation …

Between 1980 and 2001, the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded over 8,000 patents on genes and genetic … to a variety of issues, including their relatively recent arrival into the patent realm, their grant of exclusivity over … factors, dealing directly with the application of patent laws, and policy factors, implicating problems of access, cost, and …

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

Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops … crop-specific technology development, I find that the introduction of patent rights increased the development of novel … increase in crop yields. Patent rights, however, could come with potentially significant costs to the consumers of technology …

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office resolves patent priority disputes in patent interference cases. Using a random … sample of cases declared between 1988 and 1994, we establish a connection between patent interferences and patent races, and … distribution of patent races by technology, evidence for strategic delay of innovation by incumbent firms, and evidence that patent …

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 …

both governments to the issue of regulatory delay eroding some period of patent protection. Second, the paper considers the … impact of the principle of free movement of goods within the European Union on the incentive structure of the patent system … could be pursued without undercutting the effective operation of the patent system. The paper suggests that such a …