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 …

Uncertainty and delay in patent litigation may have unforeseen virtues. The combination of
these oft-criticized characteristics1 might induce a limited amount of infringement that …

There are ninety-four federal district courts in the United States, but nearly half of the six
thousand patent cases filed in 2013 were filed in just two of those courts: the District of …

According to an often-cited study on the number of invalidated patents, nearly half of litigated
patents were held invalid.'Moreover, a new study published in March of 2011 has found that …

Patent-assertion entities, or" patent trolls," use the threat of injunction to hold up product-
producing companies in patent suits. The Supreme Court's 2006 decision in eBay Inc. v …

For over 170 years, US patent law has required that, prior to the assertion of any property
rights in an invention, the inventor obtain a favorable opinion from a neutral expert who has …

One of the fundamental goals of a patent system is to encourage the research and
development of the most socially valuable inventions-those innovations that will produce the …

Since the creation of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the early
1980's, a lingering debate amongst members of the patent bar existed over whether the …

My topic," Judicial Patent Specialization: A View from the Trial Bench," is perhaps less
urgent and less politically charged than yesterday's luncheon comments by Professor John …

Patent reform has become, perhaps improbably, one of the most contentious issues facing
Congress and the courts over the past six years. The fights range across a number of major …