Growing trends in the development and application of intellectual property (IP) witnessed in
recent years suggest an expanding role of technology and innovation in global economies …

When designers obtain exclusive intellectual property (IP) rights in the. functional aspects of
their creations, they can wield these rights to increase both the costs to their competitors and …

When judges change the legal rules governing patents, those changes are always
retroactive. That is, they apply equally to patents that have already been granted and patents …

The Patent Act, like many other statutes setting forth civil causes of action,'allows prevailing
plaintiffs to obtain retrospective relief in the form of monetary damages. 2 As in other areas of …

Innovation is an inherently uncertain process. Success is typically coupled with risk and we
can only hope that those with great ideas will persevere. To encourage innovation, society …

ARTICLES IGNORING INFORMATION QUALITY Page 1 ARTICLES IGNORING INFORMATION
QUALITY Janet Freilich* Entry into the patent system is guarded by an examination process to …

While artificial intelligence (AI) research brings challenges, 1 the resulting systems are no
accident. In fact, academics, researchers, and industry professionals have been developing …

The conclusions here are mixed. On one hand, invalidations for lack of novelty bear many
indicia of publicly beneficial error correction. Anticipation based on obscure prior art appears …

Advances in artificial intelligence (Al) have enabled the technology to contribute significantly
to the development of patentable inventions. These advances, which allow Al to augment …

This Essay is an empirical study of the evidence the Patent Trial and Appeal Board relies
upon when cancelling patents in inter partes review. To construct our dataset, we collected …