The patent law regimes of the United States and Europe are ambiguous regarding whether or not the subject matter of … defining technology; and it confounds contemporary decision-making by patent offices on the patentability of inventions and by … physical in order to be technical. Despite such ambiguity, patent law throughout the world is arguably founded on the idea that …

This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten … based on VaxPaL, a COVID-19 vaccines patent database developed by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Through the detailed … examination of patent applicants, filing dates, and offices of first and subsequent filing, the paper identifies patterns and …

then, the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and … an overview of the patent landscape of medical treatments and technologies related to COVID-19, and of the patent status … of two investigational medical treatments: remdesivir and lopinavir/ritonavir. It then presents various patent …

parties. Assessing patent value when multiple, complementary patents held by different patent holders are involved is a … complicated exercise, which may need to be carried out in both litigation and non-litigation contexts. US federal patent law … authorizes a patentee who successfully proves that its patent has been infringed to recover profits lost or damages that are due …

This paper investigates the optimal design of a patent challenge mechanism through the re-allocation of patent rights …, in which a successful challenger is rewarded with partial patent rights previously granted to the patentee. Two incentive … prior art, and whether and how to prevent collusion once the prior art has been found. Transferring patent rights to a …

the analysis away from the gap between the prior art and the invention to the invention only. The Patent Office, the … technologies, and conflicts with basic patent theory. Accordingly, the Patent Office and courts need to reconsider how they use …

The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in … the antitrust risk for all forms of coordination, including arrangements of the type found in the IEEE-SA updated patent …

The current approach for determining when courts should award injunctions in patent disputes involves a myopic focus on … sometimes could rely instead on a consideration far more relevant to the patent system's goal of promoting innovation: the …. v. FireFly Equipment, LLC, which held that injunctive relief may be appropriate when a defendant infringes a patent that …

Adelman and Kathryn DeAngelis challenge the use of patent characteristics to identify valuable patents either retrospectively … or prospectively. Adelman and DeAngelis's primary empirical contentions regarding the unsuitability of patent … patent characteristics (called patent metrics by Adelman and DeAngelis) often viewed as indicators of value are skewed, thus …