categories of broad legal framework defined by the Czech patent law. We found that each university complies formally with the law …

The patent system gives the courts discretion to tailor patentability standards flexibly across technologies to provide … practical, non-research-based use at the time patent protection is sought. The fear is that an early-stage patent on a research … innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in …

quality) than their European counterparts after patent rights for software inventions were introduced. We then introduce a …

Few papers address the issue of faculty motivations to patent, and none comprehensively investigates why faculty decide … not to patent. To fill this gap, I surveyed Italian faculty inventors of university-owned patents (N = 208), and … noninventors working in the same disciplines (N = 416). Major motivations to patent are prestige/reputation and knowledge exchange …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

Many scholars have wrestled with what I call the “first-order question” in patent law: What policies should we adopt to … about promoting innovation? I argue that empirical progress in patent law depends on greater policy diversity (rather than … spillovers from local policies. Instead, patent policymakers should adopt a third way between uniformity and local control …

Professor Sichelman’s article on “Purging Patent Law of Private Law Remedies” offers a welcome and useful perspective … on the reform of patent remedies. In this comment I critique some of his assumptions regarding the “private” nature of … patent and other remedies, then turn to discussing several examples of existing and underutilized tools, such as “reverse …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

inventors, the technological profiles of firms and patent value. In particular, this paper focuses on the value of academic … patent belongs to a core or non-core technology relative to the firm's technological profile neutralizes the premium of non …