This paper presents an easy-to-use measure of patent scope that is grounded both in patent law and in the practices of … patent attorneys. We validate our measure by showing both that patent attorneys' subjective assessments of scope agree with … previous measures of patent scope (i.e. the number of patent classes, the number of citations made by future patents, and the …

The US case Akamai Technologies Inc v Limelight Networks Inc brought the patent world's attention to the issue of if … ‘divided performance' issue in the Australian context, finding that, contrary to an earlier article, no patent infringement …, thereby, generate certainty for the myriad stakeholders who use the patent system …

Release of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Office Action Research Dataset for Patents marks the … from USPTO examiners to the applicants of 2.2 million unique patent applications …

Patent scope is one of the important aspects in the debates over “patent quality.” The purported decrease in patent … licensing and litigation costs. However, these debates often occur without well-defined measurements of patent scope. This paper … explores two very simple metrics for measuring patent scope based on claim language: independent claim length and independent …

This Article explores the claiming systems of patent and copyright law. It first develops a two-dimensional taxonomy …: claiming can be either peripheral or central and either by characteristic or by exemplar. Patent law has principally adopted a … system of peripheral claiming, requiring patentees to articulate by the time of the patent grant their invention's bounds …

An “invention,” as used in the United States patent laws, refers to anything made by man that employs or harnesses a …

Does U.S. patent law increase the competitiveness of U.S. firms in global markets? This Article argues that, contrary … to the beliefs of many U.S. lawmakers, U.S. patent law currently undermines the ability of U.S. firms to compete in … global markets because strong U.S. patent rights actually weaken an overlooked but critical determinant of U …

patent law operates generally with an emphasis on how it may impact the environment in particular. In so doing, the essay … addresses from a patent perspective some representative concerns relating to patents that appear to be prevalent in the … environmental literature and shows how the patent system may provide substantial benefit for those favoring the environment …

The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in … the antitrust risk for all forms of coordination, including arrangements of the type found in the IEEE-SA updated patent …

Patent scope is central to the sale of ideas, which can spur economic growth and provide significant gains from trade …. Awarding an inventor a patent on a new idea partially solves a commitment problem that would otherwise prevent the inventor … from selling the idea. (Arrow, 1962). In the absence of a patent, a prospective buyer cannot credibly promise not to steal …