patent-regime change on world-fair exhibits per capita, which we use as a proxy for non-patented innovation. We interpret …This paper analyzes the consequences of radical patent-regime change by exploiting a natural experiment: the forced … adoption of the Prussian patent system in territories annexed after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. Compared to other German …

strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data … strategy reveals there was an almost universal drop in patent social value in the second half of the 1990s, signaling a shift … companies increasing their focus on patent value relative to companies from other industries. On average, aerospace and software …

a harmonised global substantive patent law, which is not yet effectively available under the TRIPs Agreement, The Patent … by the two claimants desire to find customary or general principles of territorially independent, international patent … standards established by the TRIPS Agreement. Therefore, the recent IP investment claims represent an additional step in the …

creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …

views of developing nations in the way that the TRIPS Agreement is interpreted and this is most evident in the recent Patent … requirements found in the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (‘the TRIPS Agreement') that … counterpoint in China's engagement with the TRIPS Agreement. This is indicated in China's willingness to align itself with the …

license can generate more revenue. Patent rights and trade secret rights are somewhat conflicting IP rights. Combined licenses … issued for using both patent rights and trade secret rights can evoke issues under Antitrust Laws. Composite license to use … patent and trade secret rights has economic effects on licensor and licensee both. This paper tries to analyse such effects …

This paper analyzes how injunctions relate to patent hold-up problems. To this end, we present a simple model of … licensing negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm in the shadow of litigation. More specifically, we consider … the situation in which an injunction is granted as a matter of course if a patent is found valid and infringed upon in …

the strengthening of the double patenting prohibition: preventing extending exclusive rights beyond the original patent … the inventor in two patents and (2) only applying the prohibition when the earlier patent did not satisfy the technical … meaning of “prior art” within §102 of the Patent Act. The rulings weakening the double patenting doctrine have disregarded …

Corporate officer liability doctrines under both the Patent Act and the Copyright Act diverge markedly from traditional … corporate, agency, and tort law doctrines. This manuscript explores why the case law in federal patent and copyright cases … articulations of individual officer liability found in both patent and copyright law can be attributed to two factors: (1) the …