mechanism whereby later inventors are allowed to share the patent if they discover within a certain time period of the first … granting monopolies. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the time window where later inventors can share the patent should become … breadth and the length of the patent and could allow sorting between more or less efficient firms in a differentiated patent …

The “monopoly” authorized by the Patent Act refers to the exclusionary power of individual patents. That is not the … same thing as the acquisition of individual patent rights into portfolios that dominate a market, something that the Patent … Act never justifies and that the antitrust laws rightfully prohibit.Most patent assignments are procompetitive and serve …

has been largely overlooked at the heart of patent law: the monopoly of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) over …Patents are limited-term monopolies awarded to inventors to incentivize innovation. But there is another monopoly that … monopoly, where a single governmental actor has the power to set prices in a regulatory area.The Article explains how …