Patent scope is one of the important aspects in the debates over “patent quality.” The
purported decrease in patent quality over the last decade or two has supposedly led to …

Patents as intangible assets are subjects of burgeoning empirical research. However, there
is limited knowledge of how patent quality and patent value can be conceptualized …

Among the many reasons high-tech companies get patents, one of the most important is to
build a patent arsenal. To guard against the risk of patent litigation, companies acquire …

Commentators have observed for years that patents do less good and cause more harm in
the software industry than in other industries such as pharmaceuticals. 1 Software patents …

A Study of Patent Thickets Page 1 A Study of Patent Thickets Intellectual Property Office is an
operating name of the Patent Office 2013/26 Research commissioned by the Intellectual …

In recent years the patent system has come under trenchant criticism. There is a general
consensus that the system is both broken and a failure. 1 Many be-lieve the root cause of the …

Archers hate vibrations. An archer releasing a bowstring and firing an arrow unleashes a
great deal of force in a short time, much of which sends the arrow toward the target. Some of …

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 …

This comprehensive and up-to-date casebook on the law of patents features helpful
introductory text, technologically-accessible cases, detailed comments, comparative, policy …

For more than two decades, the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and the Federal Circuit
have exercised nearly complete institutional control over the patent system. Yet in recent …