economic areas: USA, Japan and Europe. In each economic area, we exploit information from two international patent offices data …, the United States Patent and Trademarks Office data and the European Patent Office data. In this way, we can investigate … the existing literature is that we introduce a patent inventors approach to measure the proximity between the firms …

properties of a compound becoming known after the patent application can support a conclusion of non-obviousness. The Supreme … incorrect dogma that unexpected properties – even if they were not known until after the patent application - show that an … properties becoming known after the patent application are not secondary considerations permitted to be considered by the Supreme …

Patent offices around the world face massive backlogs of applications, which threatens to slow down the pace of … technological progress. However, economists lack analytical tools to tackle the issue. This paper provides a model of patent … of patent pendency. They can accelerate or slow down the duration of pendency by adapting their filing strategy. We use …

The patent system is usually described in terms of opposites, like producers versus trolls or software versus pharma …-five years of patent litigation by highly litigious non-practicing entities and randomly selected plaintiffs explores each of … one thousand patent outcomes in more than two thousand cases leads to some surprising findings. For example, while the …

diminish the value of patent-related commitments made by participants. In these cases, the intervention of public law …

Congress “repeatedly stated [that] its paramount goal” in having inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and … a patent's validity.” Duplicative patent challenges within and across IPRs and district court litigation is the focus of …

This report examines some recent European Patent Office (EPO) Board of Appeal decisions on business method patents …. According to the European Patent Convention (EPC), methods for doing business are not regarded as inventions if they're claimed … “as such” in a patent application. In most cases, EP patent applications on business method patents are rejected for lack …

This paper looks at the relationship between venture capital (VC) funds and patent assertion entity (PAE). These two …

of the WTO to ensure that patent protection stimulates innovation, and that the benefits are in balance with social costs …