Technology is always changing. Patent law is also constantly evolving, as the courts and
Congress continue to make significant changes to this area of law. But what about patents …

Despite a virtual avalanche of patent studies issued during the past few years, simple but
fundamental questions necessary to address patent reform remain unanswered. Most …

This paper began as an essay written for Professor Michael Carrier's seminar, Theories of
Intellectual Property, at Rutgers School of Law-Camden in Fall 2009. I was given the …

This essay analyzes how various patent rules, viewed together, indirectly cause a distorted
historical record of technological development. Part II of this essay looks at a recent book …

Patent claims are supposed to clearly and succinctly describe the patented invention, and
only the patented invention. This Article hypothesizes that a substantial amount of language …

On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed into law the most influential patent reform
legislation in nearly sixty years. The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (" Act") is Congress's …

Sixteen years ago, two of us published the first detailed empirical look at patent litigation. In
this Article, we update and expand the earlier study with a new hand-coded data set. We …

For some time patent law has been criticized for a flood of bad patents. Patents of
questionable validity are being issued with overly broad, oftennebulous boundaries. A …

Determination of the scope of a patented invention is one of the most contentious and
difficult tasks of modem patent law. Claimsnumbered clauses at the end of a patent-are …

As with any area of law, rights and duties relating to patents should be clearly communicated
in an efficient manner. Unfortunately, uncertainty concerning the scope of the rights granted …