concern. However, the cultural impact of patent law is arguably examined with less emphasis, somewhat in contrast to the … of the "public" at stake in modern patent law …

Numerous scholars have proposed many different explanations for why inventors and innovative companies patent. Few … handful of studies examining how entrepreneurs and start-up companies use and are affected by the U.S. patent system, and none … Patent Survey, the first survey in the United States examining patents and entrepreneurship, which is currently underway at …

An “invention,” as used in the United States patent laws, refers to anything made by man that employs or harnesses a …

Although China became the world's leading patent filer in 2011, patent quality is still a serious issue in the country …. This article first provides a statistical snapshot of this situation and then discusses how China's network of patent …-related policies and practices in certain cases actually contributes to this problem and hampers innovation. The article also looks at …

The inventive step is the critical variable in determining balance between patent costs and patent benefits. Set at the … asking the question "is it obvious?" sets a far lower standard for patent grant than asking "is it inventive?". The author …

of validity and the standard of proof to overcome it matters in patent litigation, at least in close cases. The final … section discusses several significant implications for participants in patent litigation and the patent system that flow from …

corporate officers for the patent infringement of their corporations as being based incorrectly upon a piercing of the corporate … for the patent infringement of their corporations …

a party to the Unified Patent System regardless of Brexit, the British government arguably shaped (il … the judicial protection of the forthcoming Unified Patent Court as much as of the European institutions (and market) as a … anticipate possible scenarios in the event of both domestic court and international arbitral claims lodged by patent investors …

territoriality under patent law through the point of patent value to assuage the challenges from emerging technologies. As a novel … contribution for the studies upon patent law, the article takes the concept of patent economic value, instead of technical value … in the cases of cross-border divided patent infringement. Rather than relying upon the technical-oriented track, the …

Courts and commentators are sharply divided about how to assess “reverse payment” patent settlements under antitrust … law. The essential problem is that a PTO-issued patent provides only a probabilistic indication that courts would hold … that the patent is actually valid and infringed, and parties have incentives to structure reverse payment settlements to …