-life, treatment cost, target clinicians, availability, owner, stage of development, patent life, product differentiation, number of …

The paper compares and contrasts the patent-based indicators, traditionally used to assess a country’s technological … being misleading. Empirically, the paper is based on the statistical information on patent activity of the top-10 patenting … countries. It concludes with a clear demonstration of the need to employ a complex of patent-related indicators to make …

of ideas, hence stimulating invention and ultimately innovation. Given an idealized dichotomy between pre …

This article examines the role of 'continuations' (procedural revisions of patent applications) in software patents and … the US patent law intended to curb 'submarine patenting'. The analysis of all US patents shows that the use of … analyze data on continuations in software or any other patent class, providing information on the effects of 1995 changes in …

. It will also question whether biopharmaceutical firms have upheld their end of the patent bargain by adequately …

policy statement does not link the need for a robust patent system with the generation of the very technological innovation … must support innovation both upstream and downstream. Avoiding the temptation to resurrect patent hold-up arguments is the … intellectual property (IP) rights results in less innovation, thereby favoring vertical integration. The SEP licensing model …

Patent law doesn’t look kindly on patent owners who engage in wrongdoing involving the patent. The U.S. Supreme Court … and lower courts have refused to enforce patents tainted with inequitableness, fraud, or bad faith. This issue typically … arises in patent litigation when an accused infringer asserts that the patent should be unenforceable if the patentee engaged …

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 …

also generally report that checking the patent literature and licensing patents from others is reasonably common, although …We offer description and analysis of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey, summarizing the responses of 1,332 U … patents is more widespread among technology startups than has been previously reported, but that the patterns and drivers of …

plants. Over the past century, the Patent Office and the courts have modulated the ability to obtain or enforce patents for … two competing policy objectives in patent law—enhancing public welfare and promoting innovation. This Article offers a new … approach for courts to protect public health in patent cases—by making public health an affirmative defense to infringement. If …