, is their call for a more responsible behaviour of patent owners in the exercise of their patent rights. In light of the … the current patent system, there is a need to reconceptualize patent rights, all the more so in the life sciences area. A … patent can no longer be viewed as a title giving (almost) complete freedom to exclude others from use, but rather as a …

The intersection between patent law and family law principles has the potential to create an irreconcilable conflict in … the area of patent ownership. These two legal worlds operate by virtue of different statutory provisions of automatic … vesting of title that appear to be unable to coexist. Under U.S. patent law, ownership of a patent automatically vests, as …

We analyze optimal patent design when innovators can rely on secrecy to protect their innovations. Secrecy provides a … temporary monopoly, which terminates when the secret leaks out or the innovation is duplicated. We find conditions under which … the optimal policy is to induce the first innovator to patent. Furthermore, we derive the optimal scope of the rights …

innovation. On this view, patents are government grants of private property rights that result in market-based, ex post rewards … in exchange for placing the innovation into the public domain. Recently, several commentators have questioned this … insight, the property-based remedies that often flow from patent infringement can result in important distinctions between …

De facto one of the indisputable shortage of patent laws proves the circumstance, that these have been made without … patentable to the statutory provisions of such laws. Honestly, majority large patent systems - USA, Germany, United Kingdom, etc … and retrograde comprehension in lawmaking - continuous uncertainty, reliability and instability of the patent laws, as …

A current refrain in patent policy discourse is that “overly-broad” patents of “dubious validity” retard innovation. We … scope and/or validity harm innovation. The Selden automobile patent is alleged to have been such a patent. We review the … and validity of Selden’s patent claims, there is no evidence that innovation was retarded. We show that Henry Ford and …

How does patent enforcement affect subsequent innovation? I exploit patent infringement litigation in the United States … to analyze the effect of patent enforcement on cumulative innovation. The results imply that subsequent innovation … patent and reductions in asymmetric information are particular driver of the increase in follow-on innovation. Although there …

patenting decisions are unresponsive to differences in patent laws. Cross-section evidence suggests that high-quality and urban …

. This exercise was part of the "UK Innovation Strategy: leading the future by creating it", which set out the government …’s long-term plan for delivering innovation-led growth. The call for views and this submission focus on issues of (i …