We offer description and analysis of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey, summarizing the responses of 1,332 U … also discover that, when choosing not to patent major innovations, startups often cite to cost considerations, although … also generally report that checking the patent literature and licensing patents from others is reasonably common, although …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

the current European patent system, one of the most advanced, complex, and contested economic systems in Europe. The … conclusions elaborate on some normative implications regarding the weaknesses of the European patent system, and underline the …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

The prevailing historical accounts of the formation of the US aircraft “patent pool” in 1917 assume the US government … necessarily intervened to alleviate a patent hold-up among private aircraft manufacturers. We show these accounts to be … no patent barriers in the market dominated by government demand. We show that the notion of the aircraft patent hold …

This Article explores the practical consequences of an important shift that has recently taken place in patent theory … justify the patent system based on its role in facilitating information exchange and enabling technical coordination among … intense attention at the level of theory, little has been said about the consequences of this debate for patent policy itself …

number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also … exist with the patent-granting process, they do not rise to the level of justifying a ban on software patents. Instead …

All forms of intellectual property may be necessary for the effective commercialization of a patent. Nevertheless …, while the Bayh-Dole Act is an explicit recognition by Congress of the need to allocate patent rights in order to promote a … policy of commercializing the products of federal research funding, it is silent on other salient intellectual patent rights …

The California Assembly Select Committee on High Technology held an informational hearing on patent assertion entities … (PAEs) on October 30, 2013. This testimony explains what a PAE is, how PAEs change the economics of high-tech patent …