This essay raises questions about the Patent Harmonization Treaty. addressing the overall direction of harmonization in … underlying goals of patent harmonization with those of the current United States patent system. The article contends that the … harmonization, in contrast, are fundamentally different. To be valid, then, patent harmonization may require a basic shift in the …

result varies with the technological class of the patent, the presence and age of a technology transfer office within the …

-implemented inventions, the subject remains very controversial, particularly due to the fact that the European Patent Office has maintained … the law. Within the scope of a socio-economic analysis, it then deals with the question of whether patent law is really …

determining any right or relief in relation to that property. This paper identifies the situs of patent …

On August 3, 1992, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register requesting … patent area. Whatever administrative lawmaking authority exists in the patent area should therefore reside in the …

Patent settlements in which the patentee pays the alleged infringer to stay out of the market are largely a consequence … producer to challenge a pioneer drug patent with a 180 day period of exclusivity. This period can be extended by a settlement …, provided that the patent lawsuit was not a “sham” and the settlement does not reach beyond the scope of the patent. The …

not patents affect the direction of research but that scientists’ understanding of patent law; their recent experience …

In recent years, patent law’s inequitable conduct doctrine has attracted considerable attention from judges …, legislators, patent lawyers, and commentators, culminating most recently in the Federal Circuit’s decision to revise certain … scholars, this Article proposes an instrumental view of the doctrine as, ideally, a tool for inducing patent applicants to …

In recent years, juries in some patent infringement suits have awarded prevailing patentees "reasonable royalty … various practices relating to the calculation of patent damages. Other voices, not surprisingly, have either defended the … debates are fundamental differences of opinion concerning the risks of so-called "patent holdup" resulting from the discovery …

The Patent Act of 1952 provides at 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) that "[w]hoever actively induces infringement of a patent shall … abet direct patent infringement shall be liable for indirect infringement. Contrary to the views of most scholars, opinions … aiding and abetting direct patent infringement solely required specific intent merely to further the acts that constituted …