We present a model of process innovation that offers an explanation for the negative relationship between patent … favor imitation. Since imitation is discouraged for strong levels of patent protection, we find that R&D investment is often … maximized for an intermediate protection level. In addition, an increase in patent protection can enhance the innovator …

the current European patent system, one of the most advanced, complex, and contested economic systems in Europe. The … conclusions elaborate on some normative implications regarding the weaknesses of the European patent system, and underline the …

The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed … system starts with an initial exclusive patent period that is much shorter, and then includes renewable periods of …

This Article explores the claiming systems of patent and copyright law. It first develops a two-dimensional taxonomy …: claiming can be either peripheral or central and either by characteristic or by exemplar. Patent law has principally adopted a … system of peripheral claiming, requiring patentees to articulate by the time of the patent grant their invention's bounds …

intensity. Looking ahead, three factors suggest the patent system may affect financial services as it has electronics: (1) the …

The role of the patent system in promoting pharmaceutical innovation is widely seen as a tremendous success story. This … view overlooks a serious shortcoming in the drug patent system: the standards by which drugs are deemed unpatentable under … patent to motivate their development. If the idea for a drug is not novel or is obvious, perhaps because it was disclosed in …

recommendations for reform. Others have suggested, among other things, enhancing software patent claim disclosure requirements to … reducing the value of most software patents. Instead, the only way to optimally reform software patent law without destroying … settled expectations of current software patent holders, is for the Supreme Court to reinstate and apply prospectively its …

Numerous scholars have proposed many different explanations for why inventors and innovative companies patent. Few … handful of studies examining how entrepreneurs and start-up companies use and are affected by the U.S. patent system, and none … Patent Survey, the first survey in the United States examining patents and entrepreneurship, which is currently underway at …

recommendations for reform. Others have suggested, among other things, enhancing software patent claim disclosure requirements to … reducing the value of most software patents. Instead, the only way to optimally reform software patent law without destroying … settled expectations of current software patent holders, is for the Supreme Court to reinstate and apply prospectively its …