in where environmental law has failed to efficiently provide greater incentives for environmental innovation. A patent … not face efficient incentives for environmental innovation - a market failure that patent rewards can ameliorate. Along … these lines, the analysis reveals a previously unrecognized benefit of patent rewards in certain circumstances …

principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic creativity (focusing on patent and … problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and copyright law and direct consumer protection statutes and …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner's ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …

This paper develops a sequential application-grant framework to analyze competing explanations for the two U.S. patent … argues that the 1990s intellectual property regime shift lowered examination standards and caused the 1990s patent surge …. Results from the empirical models reject the ¿friendly court¿ hypothesis as the primary source of the eighties patent surge …

in patent grants is at least partly a result of the apparent decline in examination standards. There has been little … rigor of the examination process, amongst other things and patent grants depend on the number and quality of applications … addition countries whose patent applications are more likely to be successful in the U.S. are more likely to be successful in …

advances in the technology must remain as openly available as the original technology. Such agreements implicate patent misuse …, which is defined as an impermissible attempt to expand the scope of the patent. Given that advancements were not part of the … teachings of the original patent, restrictions on those advancements may constitute misuse. The proper test for patent misuse is …

aspects of UK patent law and asks whether some of the activities it rewards deserve the protection they get. The argument is … that patent law should more precisely match and reward the advance the inventor discloses; that patents should not be … the patent holder and the public fairly expect to be included with the patent’s claims should be caught; and that patents …

creation of lesser estates or restrictive covenants for real property. In sum, early American courts incorporated into patent … concepts of "assignments" and "licenses." Given widespread confusion today concerning patent conveyance doctrines, this chapter … economic parlance), but patent theorists today can draw at least two important lessons from it. First, it reveals how …