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 …

Until recently, successful patent plaintiffs would almost always be awarded injunctions against future infringement …. Thanks to a recent change in remedies jurisprudence, however, patent plaintiffs today are often denied injunctions and … determined by the court. As a result, certain types of patent cases should today slow down. That is, courts should extend …

How do non-practicing entities (“Patent Trolls”) impact innovation and technological progress? We employ unprecedented … innovation drops when patents are acquired by NPEs. Quantitatively, the overall impact of NPEs depends on the share of … access to NPE-derived patent and financial data and a novel model to answer this question. We find that NPEs tend to acquire …

-value nuisance patents that should be filtered out by a costly screen).This Article argues that these flaws in patent screening are … granted. When patents are too easily obtained, that undermines the costly screen, because even a plainly invalid patent has a … low-quality patents. And although it is hard to test directly if the quality of patent examination is falling, there is …

-centered open innovation, characterized by a for-profit motive and the interplay between patents and contracts, resulting in …Open innovation is the subject of increased scholarly debate. A lot of attention has thereby been paid to firm … communities the present paper examines how the law can assist in establishing a new approach to open innovation (‘new' open …

We show that examiner-driven variation in patent rights leads to quantitatively large impacts on several patent … outcomes, including patent value, citations, and litigation. Notably, Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) overwhelmingly purchase … patents granted by "lenient" examiners. These examiners issue patents that are more likely to be litigated by both PAEs and …

This paper investigates the entry decision of a firm into a market that is protected by a patent. It shows how entrants … information asymmetry that arises due to the fact that patent strengths are private information. The paper analyses the incumbent … damages doctrine reduces the incentives for an incumbent to patent excessively …

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively … distortions caused by bad patents. Moreover, we show that introducing a two-tiered patent system is unlikely to improve market …

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inventors, the technological profiles of firms and patent value. In particular, this paper focuses on the value of academic … patents as compared to non-academic patents, owned by large firms based in Sweden. One finding is that academic patents have a … patent belongs to a core or non-core technology relative to the firm's technological profile neutralizes the premium of non …