to obtain patent rights in hopes that the patent incentive will foster commercialization, as well as generate revenues to … patent and licensing practices. Specific suggestions to modify the currently proposed regulations are provided …

For much of the past decade, scholars and others have criticized the U.S. patent system for a variety of legal … five years. Unfortunately, pending bills for so-called patent “reform” would make little or no fundamental substantive … the form of the “guts” of a new patent statute. Its statutory proposal tracks the current statute's organization and has …

This paper analyzes how strategic calibration of utility model patent regimes – which provide a type of patent right … technological development. To do this, the paper develops what appear to be the first indexes of utility model patent regime … Asian latecomers instituted utility model patent regimes that were less strict and offered less appropriability during …

Congress “repeatedly stated [that] its paramount goal” in having inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and … a patent's validity.” Duplicative patent challenges within and across IPRs and district court litigation is the focus of …

The United States Patent Office was poised to implement a new set of regulatory rules on November 1, 2007, that would … have had considerable impact upon the use of continuation applications in patent prosecution. As the proposed Final Rules …'s authority, their potential impact upon patent prosecution methods will likely remain in the realm of the hypothetical. This …

We present a model of process innovation that offers an explanation for the negative relationship between patent … favor imitation. Since imitation is discouraged for strong levels of patent protection, we find that R&D investment is often … maximized for an intermediate protection level. In addition, an increase in patent protection can enhance the innovator …

in spillover benefits which can provide dynamic efficiency gains to offset the static efficiency losses of the patent … decisions reducing the quantum of inventiveness required in Australia for grant of a standard patent. It commences with a short … to patent grant, including the key elements in the complex legal approach to 'inventiveness'. The main section of the …