mechanism whereby later inventors are allowed to share the patent if they discover within a certain time period of the first … granting monopolies. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the time window where later inventors can share the patent should become … breadth and the length of the patent and could allow sorting between more or less efficient firms in a differentiated patent …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

Until recently, successful patent plaintiffs would almost always be awarded injunctions against future infringement …. Thanks to a recent change in remedies jurisprudence, however, patent plaintiffs today are often denied injunctions and … determined by the court. As a result, certain types of patent cases should today slow down. That is, courts should extend …

This paper examines the welfare tradeoff between patent and antitrust law. Since patent and antitrust law have … false negatives in patent antitrust. We find that the relevant error cost ratio for patent antitrust is the proportion of … range of deterministic demand functions, ranges from infinity to a low of roughly three. This suggests that patent antitrust …

How do non-practicing entities (“Patent Trolls”) impact innovation and technological progress? We employ unprecedented … access to NPE-derived patent and financial data and a novel model to answer this question. We find that NPEs tend to acquire …

The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial, setting became overtly … substitutionary in the America Invents Act. No longer content to encourage court litigants to rely on Patent Office expertise for … emergent border between court and agency power in the U.S. patent system. By design, the border is not absolute. Concurrent …

The paper investigates whether patent fees are an effective mechanism to deter the filing of low-quality patent … applications. The study analyzes the effect on patent quality of the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1982, which resulted in a … substantial increase in patenting fees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Results from a series of difference …

Novelty is a basic requirement of patent law. An inventor cannot obtain a patent if the invention exists in the “prior …-filed patent document qualifies as prior art as of its filing date — even though the document does not become accessible to the … invention to the public; administrative delay of public accessibility due to Patent Office procedures should not count against …

the strengthening of the double patenting prohibition: preventing extending exclusive rights beyond the original patent … the inventor in two patents and (2) only applying the prohibition when the earlier patent did not satisfy the technical … meaning of “prior art” within §102 of the Patent Act. The rulings weakening the double patenting doctrine have disregarded …