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 …

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 …

reached with the party practicing the patent. The PAE phenomenon has prompted suggestions that the antitrust laws be applied …

. In recent litigation, three issues have risen to the fore, popularized under the labels “patent ambush”, “patent holdup …” and “patent thickets”. There is a risk that the discussion of standardization, in academic and policy circles, becomes …

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 …

critiquing current patent practice implicitly assumes that the patent functions as a form of technical document ….Careful consideration of the artifices by which a new patent is staged reveals parallels to the known staging of technical papers, including …. Patent formation employs its own decidedly non-scientific strategies for settling controversies and reaching closure. In …

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

One of the underlying justifications of the patent system is to encourage dissemination of scientific knowledge and … promote innovation. Yet, the patent system is not a green card to innovation. Indeed, given our progress in science and the … perspective, it might be contended that the patent system is not meeting its said objectives. But the patent system should be seen …

The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed … system starts with an initial exclusive patent period that is much shorter, and then includes renewable periods of …