traditional property theory is determinative in patent law. Early American courts secured to patentees the same conveyance rights … creation of lesser estates or restrictive covenants for real property. In sum, early American courts incorporated into patent … concepts of "assignments" and "licenses." Given widespread confusion today concerning patent conveyance doctrines, this chapter …

effects on markets and innovation. I propose several administrative and legislative measures directed toward the elimination … markets and innovation, such measures merit serious consideration by the USPTO and Congress …

patentability in the field of pharmaceutical inventions. To this end, the contribution adopts an anecdotal approach: instead of … abstractly analyzing the boundaries set by Article 27 TRIPS, it takes up specific questions related to patentability raised … from patent protection (iii) new forms of known substances when they do not show an improvement in known efficacy and (iv …

licensing, and patent pools; and analyzes the development of Climate Innovation Centres, the Eco-Patent Commons, and …: Innovation 7. Climate Innovation Centres: Patent Law and Public Sector Licensing 8. The Eco-Patent Commons: Patent Pools … effects of climate change. This book charts the patent landscapes and legal conflicts emerging in a range of fields of …

hungry capitalist marketplace, patent law has expanded to accommodate a range of biological inventions. There has been much … waitress, Donna MacLean, sought a patent application - GB0000180.0 - in respect of herself. She explained that she had … satisfied the usual patent criteria - in that she was novel, inventive, and useful: It has taken 30 years of hard labor for me …

There is no global patent that will secure protection for an invention globally, and as the title of the book Global … limited ability to enforce their patents across national borders. While national patent systems have undergone significant … internationalization in the past 140 years, and international treaties and agreements among national patent offices have been designed to …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …