be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … first mechanism we discuss is price based regulation of patents through a system of increasing renewal fees. The second and …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue. …

Patents have long been regarded as the ‘gold standard’ of intellectual property protection. In “Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue. …

Although patents are the prototypical type of protection that most people consider applicable to protecting drugs …, patents are just the most-established and well-known method available to protect drugs from competition. However, there are …

embodies this power, but does it fulfill its essential purpose? This Note explores the scope of the exclusive rights of patents … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed …

In this paper I consider the construction of patents as social practices. The goal is to observe patents in action …, that is, to catch patents in the act of becoming patents. This method of “following the action” is well established in the … extensively explored. Given that patents share much of their form and language with technical literature, we might expect that …

Intellectual property is traditionally split into three main segments that of copyright, patents and trademarks. In …