In Graham v. John Deere Co., the Supreme Court explained that patent law's
nonobviousness doctrine is meant to restrict the award of patents to only" those inventions …

About half, probably more, of all patented inventions in the United States are never
commercially exploited.'Many of these undeveloped inventions are commercially worthless …

Patent law-and in particular the law governing patent eligibility-is in a state of crisis. This
crisis is one of profound confusion. Confusion exists because the current approach to …

Patent law has been missing the obvious. Tasked with advancing innovation by awarding an
exclusive right to make or use certain inventions in exchange for their creation and …

This casebook provides a thorough overview of the fundamentals of US patent law. The
book is organized in fourteen chapters. The casebook starts with the current statute in Title …

Courts have long recognized and policed attempts to contract around the patent code. 1
Settled law establishes that the proprietor of a patent which enjoys market power cannot …

The principal recent studies of patent reform (NAS (2004), FTC (2003), Jaffe and Lemer
(2004)) contend that a uniform system of patent protection must (or should) be available for" …

A new era in patent law has dawned. After years of demand for patent reform and six years
of intense negotiations over potential reforms,'the enactment of the historic Leahy-Smith …

George Priest has described the economic analysis of the patent system as" one of the least
productive lines of inquiry in all of economic thought." 1 In spite of abundant scholarship on …

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is tasked with the job of reading patent
applications and determining which ones qualify for patent protection. It is a herculean task …