patent jurisprudence has borrowed incautiously from antitrust.This Article explains how the requirements for patentability … patent law, and argues that current use of antitrust-style judicial shortcuts do not satisfy these conditions in patent law …Deciding a patent's validity is costly, and so is deciding it incorrectly. Judges and juries must expend significant …

The GAI submitted comments in response to a public consultation by the Japan Patent Office (JPO) regarding its Draft … Guide for SEP (standard-essential patent) Licensing Negotiations. The GAI comments encouraged the JPO to acknowledge the … implementers, and to recognize the key role of SSOs in determining how patents necessary to the provision of standardized products …

antitrust law, or a copyright or patent owner under intellectual property law - should be subject only to a liability rule of … compulsory licensing, no more and no less. While the essential facility doctrine of antitrust law already reflects this rule, the … reverse doctrine of equivalents in patent law and the Feist originality doctrine in copyright law have not yet been applied in …

intellectual property right design. We derive conclusions in the simplest, one-time innovation, case then investigate how these … optimal procurement of innovation are considered. Finally, we sketch enforcement and competition policy issues. …