There is a definite economics literature analogizing patents to real options. A patent is like a real option, economists say, because it allows its owner to choose between exclusively commercializing the patented invention sometime during the patent term or foregoing commercialization...

This Article questions the conventional wisdom that the patent system should continue to encourage "early filing" of patent applications-filing at the beginning stages of technological development. The current thinking regarding early filing fails to account for the lack of technical and market...

Less than a handful of casebooks are truly open source, in the sense of being fully modifiable. Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook is the first patent law casebook that provides adopting professors, students, and others the ability to fully modify its contents. This file comprises the casebook...

One of the major critiques of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is a structural one. Since the Federal Circuit is the sole appellate court for a variety of legal areas (particularly patent law), its exclusive jurisdiction causes the court's decision-making to become...