Corporate officer liability doctrines under both the Patent Act and the Copyright Act diverge markedly from traditional … corporate, agency, and tort law doctrines. This manuscript explores why the case law in federal patent and copyright cases … articulations of individual officer liability found in both patent and copyright law can be attributed to two factors: (1) the …

affect emerging market patent systems.The paper will conclude that the discussions about the current surge of emerging market … patent filings reveal a fundamental tension between two different patent discourses: a more conventional/legal narrative … two facets of patents, can a meaningful response to the current emerging market patent tsunami be developed …

parameters of patent licensing, including FRAND terms, for voluntary national standards; they allow discretion in determining the … necessity of suspending and revising voluntary national standards when patent licensing arrangements are not finalized; they … mandate patent licensing for compulsory national standards and also provide some transparency in national standards …

The legal monopoly granted by the patent system has often been criticized for its inefficiency, which is exacerbated by …

reached with the party practicing the patent. The PAE phenomenon has prompted suggestions that the antitrust laws be applied …

Purpose – This paper applies Schumpeter's innovation theory approach to current patent policy. The theoretical analysis … examines whether the patent policy harms to innovation level in the innovation driven economy. The aim of this paper is … answering the question: Does current patent policy is stimulating or has destructive impact on economic development driven by …

We discuss various economic aspects of different types (or taxa) of “patent thickets” identified in a companion article … co-authored by one of us. We analogize patent thickets to “tangible input thickets” (in which manufacturers of complex … differences between the patent thicket and tangible input thicket situations. We discuss certain issues applicable to various taxa …