model patent system, this study illustrates that it is possible to create a useful legal, policy, and institutional … Austria, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, and Italy; reasons behind the composition, including any …

Article I USPTO’s patent invalidation power. A number of these challenges remain pending today. This article addresses several …

between the propensity to jointly own a patent and proximity in the product market; b) joint patents are associated with less …

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 …

affect emerging market patent systems.The paper will conclude that the discussions about the current surge of emerging market … patent filings reveal a fundamental tension between two different patent discourses: a more conventional/legal narrative … two facets of patents, can a meaningful response to the current emerging market patent tsunami be developed …

construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment … not declared a patent as essential to IEEE (the control group). Using a difference-in-differences approach, I provide … the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …

- trajectory. The USA focus on the established thin-film sub-trajectory and inventive activity in Germany focuses on module …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … participation of a patent's original examiner in the opposition division as an instrument. We find a disciplinary effect of … invalidation: Affected inventors file 20% fewer patent applications in the decade after the decision. This effect is entirely …