The prevailing historical accounts of the formation of the US aircraft “patent pool” in 1917 assume the US government … necessarily intervened to alleviate a patent hold-up among private aircraft manufacturers. We show these accounts to be … no patent barriers in the market dominated by government demand. We show that the notion of the aircraft patent hold …

patent litigations are often inaccessible. This article takes a closer look at this phenomenon by examining a single case … on both agribusiness and patent law. The $1 billion award against DuPont will undoubtedly shape the future of the market … raises novel patent remedy issues. This article assesses how transparent this landmark case was from two perspectives …

patent law operates generally with an emphasis on how it may impact the environment in particular. In so doing, the essay … addresses from a patent perspective some representative concerns relating to patents that appear to be prevalent in the … environmental literature and shows how the patent system may provide substantial benefit for those favoring the environment …

Although it may surprise scientists, one can receive a patent in many jurisdictions without implementing an invention …

Patent thickets are sets of overlapping intellectual property rights that occur in fragmented technology markets. Their … patent thickets on market value of publicly traded manufacturing firms. I find that patent thickets decrease the market value … R&D activities in response to patent thickets, they do reduce negative cost effects of patent thickets on market value …

years this strategy has created negative impacts on patent quality and thus somewhat may have hampered innovation in China … patent filings and unprecedented negative growth rates of domestic utility model and design filings, shed new light on this … debate. They suggest that recent shifts away from the government strategy of stimulating mere numbers of any type of patent …

This Article explores the practical consequences of an important shift that has recently taken place in patent theory … justify the patent system based on its role in facilitating information exchange and enabling technical coordination among … intense attention at the level of theory, little has been said about the consequences of this debate for patent policy itself …

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 …

Because it must rely on imperfect information, the patent system will inevitably make mistakes. To determine how the … picture of the consequences of error in either direction. On the one hand, erroneous patent awards impose unjustified costs …. On the other hand, erroneous patent denials discourage successful inventors and reduce incentives to create in the future …

To study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening, we develop an integrative framework incorporating … four main policy instruments: patent office examination, pre- and post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show …. Simulations of the model, calibrated on U.S. patent and litigation data, indicate that patenting is socially excessive and the …