how, and the extent to which a precautionary approach could be crystallized in the intellectual property (IP) patent …

As an economist, I find the current state of the law regarding damages for patent infringement – most particularly that … relating to apportionment – frustrating at best and woefully incomplete at worst. Namely, damages case law for utility patent … rule (EMVR) versus the smallest salable patent practicing unit (SSPPU) principle. The modern pair of EMVR and SSPPU options …

parties. Assessing patent value when multiple, complementary patents held by different patent holders are involved is a … complicated exercise, which may need to be carried out in both litigation and non-litigation contexts. US federal patent law … authorizes a patentee who successfully proves that its patent has been infringed to recover profits lost or damages that are due …

James Watt's 1769 patent is widely supposed to have stood in the way of the development of high-pressure steam …-pressure steam technology developed only after the expiration of Watt's patent, the delay was due to factors other than that patent …

We investigate how patent classification influences the interpretation of patent statistics. Innovation researchers … currently make use of various patent classification schemas, which are hard to replicate. Using machine learning techniques, we … construct a transparent, replicable and adaptable patent taxonomy, and a new automated methodology for classifying patents. We …

specialist circles of patent law, Hatch-Waxman Amendment ANDAs, for which final FDA approval is attained, can create patent …

Congress “repeatedly stated [that] its paramount goal” in having inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and … a patent's validity.” Duplicative patent challenges within and across IPRs and district court litigation is the focus of …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

We study the matching of patent applications to examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Using test …