Liquid patents

AL Landers - Denv. UL Rev., 2006 - HeinOnline
The current patent system is argued to be in a state of crisis. Although much recent criticism
about the patent system has been leveled at socalled" patent trolls," another trend has …

Contracting Patents: A Modern Patent Exhausting Doctrine

AS Rinehart - Harv. JL & Tech., 2009 - HeinOnline
In the world of consumers," people want products rather than patents."'The distinction
between a product and the intellectual property embodied within it creates an uneasy …

Liberty and property in the patent law

JR Thomas - Hous. L. Rev., 2002 - HeinOnline
Unbound from technology, contemporary patent law now seems a more robust discipline.
Modern patent instruments appropriate a diverse array of techniques that span the entire …

The political economy of the patent system

JP Kesan, AA Gallo - NCL Rev., 2008 - HeinOnline
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE PATENT SYSTEM* Page 1 THE POLITICAL
ECONOMY OF THE PATENT SYSTEM* JAY P. KESAN** AND ANDRES A. GALLO*** In …

Patent costs and unlicensed use of patented inventions

RS Eisenberg - The University of Chicago Law Review, 2011 - JSTOR
Recent commentators have observed, and sometimes lamented, significant gaps between
the formal reach of the patent system and the practical exclusionary effect of patent law. It is …

Patent Law's Audience

MD Janis, TR Holbrook - Minn. L. Rev., 2012 - HeinOnline
Patent Law's Audience Page 1 Article Patent Law's Audience Mark D. Janist & Timothy R.
Holbrook"t Introduction ........................................................................... 73 I. Designing Legal Rules in …

Patent portfolios

RP Wagner, G Parchomovsky - University of Pennsylvania Law …, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
This article presents a new theory of patent value, responding to growing empirical evidence
that the traditional appropriability premise of patents is fundamentally incomplete in the …

A generation of patent litigation

M Risch - San Diego L. Rev., 2015 - HeinOnline
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 …

Irrational ignorance at the patent office

MD Frakes, MF Wasserman - Vand. L. Rev., 2019 - HeinOnline
The principal task of the US Patent & Trademark Office (" Patent Office" or" Agency") is to
determine whether an invention merits a reward of a patent. 1 There is growing consensus …

The malleability of patent rights

J Rantanen - Mich. St. L. Rev., 2015 - HeinOnline
The core insight of this Article is that patent rights are not static and fixed, as they are
commonly portrayed, but malleable. Commentators typically treat patent rights as if they are …