India has a history of the patent acts starting form 1911. All happened was pre independence. The Patent Act, 1970 was … the first patent act to the independent India. It had provision for only process patent but did not have any provision for … product patent. Therefore the process could have been patented but not the end product which gave rise to the concept of …

The concept of “invention” is fundamental to patent law. What the patentee creates as the invention, he receives as his … monopoly reward. This quid pro quo suggests that patent scope is self-defining: the patentee receives whatever invention he … patent scope, discards the conflicting yet absolutist rules governing this area, and determines scope based on balancing …

This essay makes two related contributions. First, it introduces the concept of “patent pull” to highlight an …

solutions may be found within the patent system, both through reducing the transaction costs associated with material transfers …

The Quanta judgement clarifies the US patent exhaustion doctrine on the basis of an authorized sale by the patent … holder. It also contributes to the prism of patent-antitrust-contract laws to scrutinize contractual restrictions better on … downstream purchasers. There are two main steps in the process of applying this prism. The first step is to determine the patent …

We analyze the extent to which patent pools (agreements where patent holders agree to license their intellectual … property as a package) could be used as an institution to facilitate technology transactions in biotechnology. Patent pools … their transaction cost reducing potential. We suggest two explanations for the fact that patent pools have not been used in …

term of the patent. However, there are attempts to unjustifiably stretch this monopoly by obtaining patents over …

to obtain patent rights in hopes that the patent incentive will foster commercialization, as well as generate revenues to … patent and licensing practices. Specific suggestions to modify the currently proposed regulations are provided …

This paper uses the EPO/OECD World Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) to provide a quantitative description of the …