patent claim construction decisions by the U.S. district courts. Because claim construction often determines the outcome of … patent litigation, the high appellate claim construction reversal rate contributes to significant uncertainty among inventors … patent judges so as to reduce this unacceptably high reversal rate. This article concludes that designation of specialist …

a party to the Unified Patent System regardless of Brexit, the British government arguably shaped (il … the judicial protection of the forthcoming Unified Patent Court as much as of the European institutions (and market) as a … anticipate possible scenarios in the event of both domestic court and international arbitral claims lodged by patent investors …

As an economist, I find the current state of the law regarding damages for patent infringement – most particularly that … relating to apportionment – frustrating at best and woefully incomplete at worst. Namely, damages case law for utility patent … rule (EMVR) versus the smallest salable patent practicing unit (SSPPU) principle. The modern pair of EMVR and SSPPU options …

This paper assesses the impact of adopting a post-grant review institution in the US patent system by comparing the … 'opposition careers' of European Patent Office (EPO) equivalents of litigated US patents to those of a control group of EPO … employing these different methods in our data analysis. We find that EPO equivalents of US litigated patent applications are …

In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of … industry specific differences in the patent system from both a legal and economic perspective. The present article attempts to … that current European patent law holds substantial potential for technology-specific application. Even though the European …