We identify welfare-optimal patent royalties in a model of costly imitation, entry and imperfect competition. When the …

solve public health issues, often because of lack of administrative, technical and legal framework. In this context patent …, without falling into the “blocking” phenomena.The paper gives an analysis on patent pools, the UNITAID experience and some …

The EU software patent could be the long awaited resolve to an extensive debate around software. The resolution should … be based on the understanding of the copyright and patent basics, the legal conflict between territoriality and the … internet, the experience of the existing US software patent, and the identification of the interested parties.In 2013 EU …

based on archaic case law, a failure to clearly identify the patent “property,” and poorly reasoned opinions that have … treatment for patent transfers may be obtained under Internal Revenue Code sections 1221 and 1222, under section 1231, and under … property, and more specifically to patent rights and know-how …

Patent scope is probably one of the most debated issues in patent law generally and it has recently gained new contours … patent application. This is surely one of the most remarkable provision contained in the Directive. Interestingly, at a first … sequence be concretely disclosed in the patent application but, differently from national laws, the Directive does not …

ensuring that the market can be as competitive as free trading allows. One problem with the patent system is that once a patent … period subsequent to patent issuance and perhaps even for the remainder of a patent's enforcement life.In the past half … extent of ownership and give notice to non-owners. Patent law has become quot;propertyquot; without either. Indeed, many of …

This article describes the processes involving the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO’s) implementation … of administrative patent levers related to business methods. Administrative patent levers are conceptualized in this … actors. This conceptual analysis of administrative patent levers is then informed by a detailed analysis of business method …

another firm's patent. If adaptation requires technology previously discovered by another firm, then the firm faces no direct … cost but may infringe another firm's patent and pay a licensing royalty. The main analysis considers the desirability and …

Many patent applications are rejected upon initial submission, but they are almost never rejected with absolute … finality. Further, subsequent to filing its original application a patent applicant might wish to write an application with … rewrite claims that had been rejected in the original application. A patent "continuation" is an application for additional …

This paper examines the impact of three patent damage regimes on licensing and competition between a patentee and …