to govern the economic activities in the EU Member States.The Unified Patent Court and the European Patent with unitary …

concern. However, the cultural impact of patent law is arguably examined with less emphasis, somewhat in contrast to the … of the "public" at stake in modern patent law …

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 …

Patent trolls (or sharks) are small patent holding individuals or firms who trap R&D intense manufacturers in patent … academic standpoint. In this paper we show why patent sharks can operate profitably, why they are of growing concern, how … indemnification rules with strategic rationales of small patent-holding firms within a game-theoretical model. Our central finding is …

within a company group. However, the previous literature has rather focused on studying the impact of taxation on patent … employ data on European and US patent and trademark applications in the period of 1996-2012 and estimate a multinomial logit …