Patent Office power has grown immensely in this decade, and the agency is wielding its power in predictably troubling … action. However, this story of Patent Office ascendancy differs from that of other agencies in two important respects. One is … that the U.S. patent system still remains primarily a means for allocating property rights, not a comprehensive regime of …

Administrative patent revocation in the U.S. is poised to enter a new period of efficiency, though ironically it will … constitutionality of Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") proceedings was blunted by the Court’s accompanying rejection of partial … institution. This Patent Office practice of accepting and denying validity review petitions piecemeal had been a key part of the …

The 2006 Supreme Court ruling in eBay vs. MercExchange marked a sea change in U.S. patent policy. The eBay decision … removed the presumption of injunctive relief. Subsequent legal and policy changes reduced the costs of challenging patent ….S. patent system more equitable, particularly for sectors such as information technology, where patent ownership is fragmented …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also … exist with the patent-granting process, they do not rise to the level of justifying a ban on software patents. Instead …

. It will also question whether biopharmaceutical firms have upheld their end of the patent bargain by adequately …

Patent law doesn’t look kindly on patent owners who engage in wrongdoing involving the patent. The U.S. Supreme Court … arises in patent litigation when an accused infringer asserts that the patent should be unenforceable if the patentee engaged … information from the Patent Office); patent misuse (anticompetitive licensing practices); unclean hands (business or litigation …

This paper examines the effect of mandatory pre-grant patent publications on the innovation of venture capital (VC … relative improvements in innovation outputs for companies whose pre-AIPA patent applications received more "revise and resubmit … thus suggest that pre-grant patent publications generate larger benefits when they can more effectively reduce such …

We develop a dynamic structural model of patent screening incorporating incentives, intrinsic motivation, and multi … new measure of patent distance that enables us to study strategic decisions by applicants and examiners. Our model … quality of screening. We quantify the social costs of patent screening and find that the annual social cost of the existing …