The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is a recently-formed division of the Patent Office in which patents can be … relevant patent claims were deemed “reasonably likely” to be invalid.The online appendix may be found at 'http …

An extensive literature exists regarding the patent disclosure and licensing commitments made by participants in … SEPs pertaining to the standards studied. NPEs initiated 64% of all SEP cases and 77% of all unique patent …

This article uses the FTC's October 2003 white paper on the U.S. patent system as the point of departure for a plenary … system's two most fundamental economic questions: (1) what things are patentable, and (2) what a patent protects. In each … case it demonstrates, by detailed reference to current U.S. patent law, how far the U.S. system is from providing clear …

create substantial tensions for the patent system to assure low-cost access to patented technologies at the back end of … technology transfer needs. This article first describes the uncertain case for relying on the patent system, the tensions that … needs, and the measures that have been proposed to limit the effect of the patent system on development of and access to …