A patent is a powerful tool. It grants its owner exclusive rights over a particular technology by
allowing him to exclude others from the use of that technology. 1 It allows the inventor to …

This Article thus proposes a robust public enforcement regime for patent law. It argues that
Congress should arm the US Patent and Trademark Office (" PTO"), the agency responsible …

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

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Patent Office or USPTO)" has recently come
under increasing scrutiny for the quality of the examinations to which patent applications are …

Patent Office power has grown immensely in this decade, and the agency is wielding its
power in predictably troubling ways. Like other agencies, it injects politics into its decisions …

It has become a fashionable practice lately for lawyers of major corporations and national
newspapers to join in the chorus, criticizing the United States District Court for the Eastern …

Why do firms in some industries ignore patents when developing new products? This paper
posits a simple answer to this longpuzzling question: firms ignore patents because they are …

In the past decade, the US patent system has been transformed. Before Congress passed
the America Invents Act (AIA) in 2011, the validity of issued patents was decided almost …

Abstract The United States Patent and Trademark Office has acquired a well-deserved
reputation for inefficacy and inefficiency. Proposals for reforming the patent office have thus …

Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1982. In
doing so, Congress granted that court exclusive, nationwide jurisdiction over all appeals …