on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and … what we know about the design of patent systems. We also look at what is known about some current policy areas, including … software and business method patents, university patenting, and the growth in patent litigation …

evidence on patents as incentives for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and … the design of patent systems. We also look at some current policy areas, including software and business method patents …, university patenting, and the growth in patent litigation …

fair and equitable treatment, and the interpretation of national patent law by domestic courts. Precisely because … treatment standard for patent law and domestic court interpretations? Our main conclusions are: first, that investment tribunals … should defer substantially to interpretations of patent law by domestic courts, limiting themselves to reviewing decisions …

sentence from G. B. Shaw describes the aim of this work accurately. The many failures in the establishment of a European patent … system should not discourage the legislator from finalizing the patent reform, because the only certain so far is that a … reform of the European patent system is necessary. Indeed, the historical analysis of cross-border patent litigation in …