If a litigated patent has previously been licensed to a third party, the courts generally adopt the terms of the prior … trivialized (and generally false) presumption that a patent license is like a commodity, with the patentee charging a common price … patent holders rationally cut off the bottom segment of the licensing market, creating substantial deadweight loss. This …

Inventive methods and processes have long received hostile treatment by the patent system. Courts have long been … skeptical of these claims because of the potential for overbreadth of the patent, particularly if the method is delineated in … uses of the compound. Nevertheless, process claims have received differential treatment in patent law. Congress has adopted …

postdoctoral scholars contribute equally to patent activity or whether there is a differential effect depending upon visa status …. We find patent counts relate positively and significantly to the number of faculty, number of PhD students and number of …

The principal recent studies of patent reform (NAS (2004), FTC (2003), Jaffe and Lerner (2004)) contend that a uniform … system of patent protection must (or should) be available for anything under the sun made by man based upon one or more of … the following premises: (1) the Patent Act requires such breadth and uniformity of treatment; (2) discriminating against …

This paper uses renewal data to estimate the value of U.S. patents, controlling for patent and owner characteristics …. Estimates of U.S. patent value are substantially larger than estimates for European patents, however, the ratio of U.S. patent …. However, patent citations explain little variance in value, suggesting limits to their use as a measure of patent quality …

patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …

This paper analyzes the effects of different sources of R&D funding and patent office attributes on the patenting … influenced by patent office attributes. The state level analysis sheds light on the differing role of the federal government as …

both governments to the issue of regulatory delay eroding some period of patent protection. Second, the paper considers the … impact of the principle of free movement of goods within the European Union on the incentive structure of the patent system … could be pursued without undercutting the effective operation of the patent system. The paper suggests that such a …

In a model of sequential patent races, it is examined whether or not introducing a patent law in the home country is … beneficial to the firms and the society as a whole given the foreign country already offers patent protection. Before the first … patent race starts, the firms and the foreign country share interests. For a given total number of firms, the welfare effect …

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