There is widespread agreement that the patent system in the United States is in need of
reform. Most of the proposals for patent reform that have proliferated in recent years share …

Many observers believe the American patent system is in crisis. 1 Complaints are often
aimed at the US Patent and Trademark Office (" PTO"), which, by many accounts, issues too …

The current proposals to change the patent laws are described by proponents as patent law"
reform." In the 215 year history of the United States patent system, Congress has rarely …

Over the past decade, the United States Supreme Court and the US Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit have displayed starkly different visions of the proper design of patent law …

This Article analyzes patent mistakes-that is, mistakes made by the patent system when it
decides whether a particular invention has met the patentability requirements. These …

What is new in juristic thought today is chiefly the candor of its processes. Much that was
once unavowed and kept beneath the surface is now avowed and open. From time …

Recent patent litigation reform efforts have focused on every branch of govemment-
Congress, the President, and the federal courts-save the fourth: administrative agencies …

In an environment in which corporate officials complain to Congress about the existence of
patent" trolls," 1 perhaps it should not come as a surprise that patent law reform proposals …

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" …

Patent reform arouses passions among the affected industries, whether they are plaintiffs or
defendants, willing users or unwilling participants in the patent system. The key question …