), decreased clarity, and questionable validity. Such patents allegedly diminish the incentives for innovation due to increased …Patent scope is one of the important aspects in the debates over “patent quality.” The purported decrease in patent … quality over the past decade or two has supposedly led to granting patents of increased breadth (or “overly broad” patents …

Software innovation is transforming the U.S. economy. Yet our understanding of how patents and patent transactions … support this innovation is limited by a lack of public information about patent licenses and sales. Claims about the patent …. Despite the prevalence of NPEs, most patents are not bought for assertion, but to support these critical innovation functions …

researchers and healthcare providers without infringing a gene patent. Many have voiced concern that this perceived thicket of … gene patents will impede the implementation of next-generation genetic technologies, particularly personal whole genome … mentioned in a US patent claim. The myth that 20% of human genes are “patented” has taken root because too many have incorrectly …

becomes possible? History reveals that the Patent Office and the courts will continue to deny patents for a long time … the frontiers of knowledge. It is difficult, however, to obtain a patent for an invention which seems impossible …, prevents the patent system from sitting at the cutting edge of technology, and frustrates the patent system’s overarching goal …

-be inventor that can thwart innovation and frustrate important objectives of the patent system. To resolve these problems and to … examination. Its implementation will not only improve the quality of issued patents, but make the patent literature a more robust …The novelty requirement seeks to ensure that a patent will not issue if the public already possesses the invention …

about promoting innovation? I argue that empirical progress in patent law depends on greater policy diversity (rather than …Many scholars have wrestled with what I call the “first-order question” in patent law: What policies should we adopt to … promote innovation? This article grapples with the second-order question: What policies should we adopt to promote innovation …

This paper contributes to the literature on innovation policies and institutional theory on conditions for effective … are important explorations made by China in recent years to promote innovations and the commercialization of patents in … universities. The two reforms have adopted different models in the allocation of university patent ownership. The former completely …

), decreased clarity, and questionable validity. Such patents allegedly diminish the incentives for innovation due to increased …Patent scope is one of the important aspects in the debates over “patent quality.” The purported decrease in patent … quality over the past decade or two has supposedly led to granting patents of increased breadth (or “overly broad” patents …

postdoctoral scholars contribute equally to patent activity or whether there is a differential effect depending upon visa status …. We find patent counts relate positively and significantly to the number of faculty, number of PhD students and number of …

This Note applies the concept of "paradigm shifts" from the history and philosophy of science to describe how patents … scientific theory. Patents on research tools can prevent widespread access to these technologies and thus inhibit downstream … patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …