the analysis away from the gap between the prior art and the invention to the invention only. The Patent Office, the … technologies, and conflicts with basic patent theory. Accordingly, the Patent Office and courts need to reconsider how they use …

An “invention,” as used in the United States patent laws, refers to anything made by man that employs or harnesses a …

This article considers a gap between patent law and competition law that is being profitably exploited by "patent … technology. First, we frame the discussion by considering the interaction of competition law and patent law and how the … interaction can, in theory, impact innovation. Then we look at the example of patent trolls and how they are taking advantage of …

: USA, Japan and Europe. In each economic area, we use information from two international patent systems to construct the … technological proximity for 240 international firms. In particular, we select firms’ patents from United States Patent and … Trademarks Office (USPTO) data and European Patent Office (EPO) data. In order to compute the technological proximity, we follow …

the European Patent Office by companies in the remit of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). We also aim at moving … Patent Office between 1985 and 2014. We employ a new matched patent-firm data set provided by the Bureau Van Dijk: ORBIS … become progressively younger on average. At the same time, we find a steady growth in the average number of 4IR patent …

, is their call for a more responsible behaviour of patent owners in the exercise of their patent rights. In light of the … the current patent system, there is a need to reconceptualize patent rights, all the more so in the life sciences area. A … patent can no longer be viewed as a title giving (almost) complete freedom to exclude others from use, but rather as a …

Article I USPTO’s patent invalidation power. A number of these challenges remain pending today. This article addresses several …

controversial changes to its patent policy. The changes include a recommended method of calculation of FRAND royalty rates, and a … request to members holding a standard essential patent (SEP) to forego their right to seek an injunction except under limited … discussing the role of patent policies of Standard-Setting Organizations (SSO) and the rules and principles applicable to the …

file patent applications to safeguard and exploit the results of their research. Section 2 of the paper discusses the … rationale of the patent system. Section 3 deals with the subject-matter which can be protected under the European Patent … Convention together with the criteria for patent protection. Section 4 describes how a patent right can be acquired. In …

The intersection of patent law with the provisions on digital signatures is characterized by two problems: the … compulsory licensing under competition law, compulsory licensing under patent law is an appropriate means in order to solve the … public domain scheme that the Government can establish pursuant to section 13 of the German Patengesetz (Patent Act) in cases …