-in-part) that human gene patents "present a significant obstacle to the next generation of innovation in genetic medicine … with his position that certain gene patents should be declared patent ineligible, reflects a widely held misperception that … consider gene patents in abstract terms that disregard the critical role of patent claims in limiting the scope of a patent …

model of the patent system, liability rules outperformed property rules in generating innovation, productivity, and social … property rules, using the patent system as an experimental model. Expressed in the nomenclature of Calabresi and Melamed, the … United States’ patent law has recently witnessed a shift away from property rules and towards liability rules. This Article …

innovation, thereby fostering patent law's overarching goal of stimulating useful innovation. And copyright law has implicitly …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 …

examination and investigation and the economic impact of patents on development and local infrastructures is of significant … concern. However, the cultural impact of patent law is arguably examined with less emphasis, somewhat in contrast to the … by the editor to the collection of essays, Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development, considers the nature …

The first sale or patent exhaustion doctrine reflects the limited nature of patents. In Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG … mixed with other seed was found to have infringed Monsanto’s patents. This paper reviews the patent exhaustion/first sale … Electronics, Inc., the Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle that the authorized sale of a patented item exhausts the patent as …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

This paper considers the prospect of a government patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth. To this end, I modify … set-up, patent buyout by the government can lead to higher level of welfare without lowering an economy's growth rate …

If a litigated patent has previously been licensed to a third party, the courts generally adopt the terms of the prior … trivialized (and generally false) presumption that a patent license is like a commodity, with the patentee charging a common price … future licensing negotiations – whenever they license their patents, whether or not today’s agreement will be a good proxy …

This article uses the FTC's October 2003 white paper on the U.S. patent system as the point of departure for a plenary … system's two most fundamental economic questions: (1) what things are patentable, and (2) what a patent protects. In each … case it demonstrates, by detailed reference to current U.S. patent law, how far the U.S. system is from providing clear …

innovation system more closely on private funding and markets, and thus on the acquisition of patents at the front end of the … coming innovation pipeline. The choice to rely on private markets and patents is highly debatable. But it is certain to … climate change technologies. The article then describes six proposals for maximizing the innovation potential of the patent …