The US case Akamai Technologies Inc v Limelight Networks Inc brought the patent world's attention to the issue of if … ‘divided performance' issue in the Australian context, finding that, contrary to an earlier article, no patent infringement …, thereby, generate certainty for the myriad stakeholders who use the patent system …

We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act … (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more … the law. These findings suggest patent disclosures generate both spillover benefits and proprietary costs. Our findings …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

We study the matching of patent applications to examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Using test …

weight in the design of the patent system because patented inventions would have been disclosed anyway. Even the few legal …

. Standard-essential patents, the smartphone patent wars, and patent trolls thrust themselves onto the IP/antitrust scene. But … perhaps the most significant change is the complete reversal of fortune undergone by drug patent settlements.Settlements by … finishing touches on their framework of near-complete deference to the settlements based on a "scope of the patent" test.But by …

Patent settlements between rivals restrain competition in many different ways. Antitrust requires them to be … "proportional" in that their anti-competitive effects are commensurate with the firms' expectations about (counterfactual) patent …